BUG: rdmd cmd line argument bug

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> It doesn't know. The mingw shell is buggy. It doesn't follow Windows 
>>> conventions, and so screws up programs that do. I've gotten numerous 
>>> mysterious bug reports over the years that eventually got traced back 
>>> to the mingw shell. Stop using it, and the problems disappear <g>.
>> What "Windows conventions" it doesn't follow?
> 
> Beats me. I just find that, over and over, when people stop using the 
> mingw shell for Windows programs their problems go away.
> 
>>  >  Stop using it, and the problems disappear <g>.
>> Not something I am in any way willing to do.
> 
> Trying to turn Windows into unix is never going to work right.
> 

Disagreed, it is already working good enough! I've been using for a 
while both the MingW tools and (more recently) the MingW shell itself, 
and it's so more useful than not having it that it would take a lot more 
bugs than that to make me change.

>> And by the way, how about folding rdmd's functionality into dmd 
>> itself? It shouldn't take too long. :)
> 
> That'll happen eventually.

Nice. :)

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