[p4] encapsulation of third party software

[Smith, Jeff]

From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Russell
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:54 PM

>The framework principals are in Windows as well, but with a really,
horrible, terrible, 
>really bad command line (you can't even call it a shell).
 
Gotta disagree with you here.  It's not great but it's not that bad.
You can do nearly everything in the Windows shell that you can with a
UNIX shell although many of the things are not intuitive.  And there are
a few things that are undocumented that you may not realize are there
(sh redirection semantics for instance).  You can also do if/else,
subroutines, backquoting of commands to capture output and more.  It
even has some parsing functionality that the UNIX shells typically push
off on other programs like sed/awk/basename.  

In the end, I usually find that if I can't do it in the Windows shell I
probably ought to be use Perl or Python.

Jeff