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This is a junk submission. Where to start? This project hasn't shown activity in 10 months. Furthermore, the project is largely written in VBScript and batch f

by runjake 14y ago

This is a junk submission. Where to start? This project hasn't shown activity in 10 months. Furthermore, the project is largely written in VBScript and batch files, which is insanity, even according to Microsoft themselves. It was time to move to Powershell a long, long time ago. You even have solid projects like NuGet to jump off from for code and design. I can't take a project seriously when it's written in VBScript because so many of its constructs are shoddy. But again, those last two paragraphs are meant as advice for living projects, which this one is not.

mkl 14y ago
Plus it's been submitted multiple times in the last few months already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312009 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312009, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085022 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085022
kayoone 14y ago
0.6.0 seems to have been released in the last 24 hours. You are probably right with the rest though
dmboyd 14y ago
Giving the guy a break, it does look like he doesn't "get" github, as it hosts the sources(not in an easily buildable format) as a binary download. and the content of the repo is just random batch files. And, regarding batch files, if it gets the job done (i.e. M4 autoconf scripts). What would powershell give you?
bmatzelle 14y ago
I am the author of Gow. > This is a junk submission. Where to start? I've never submitted Gow to Hacker News but it does seem to pop up every once and a while and it gets the project a few hits. This is a project I work on in my free time (and I get paid very well hourly so it's expensive to me) and if it weren't for programmers like me you wouldn't be able to do half the things you can do on your computer, so unless you've spent thousands of hours coding for free then please stop spreading the hate. > This project hasn't shown activity in 10 months. Please do your research. I just made a big release yesterday so the user that posted this wasn't just spamming HN. https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/change_log https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/change_log > Furthermore, the project is largely written in VBScript and batch files, which is insanity I wrote that script 10 years ago and it works with every version of Windows from Windows 2000 on. I made Gow so I could use Unix utilities on all versions of Windows. If I wrote it in PowerShell then it would force all users to either use a new version of Windows or download the PowerShell installer for zero added benefit. The script just adds Gow\bin to the PATH. Gow certainly doesn't need PowerShell for that.
michaelcampbell 14y ago
> It was time to move to Powershell a long, long time ago. Except Powershell uses a wholly different paradigm, won't run people's favorite shell scripts they've carried around with them for decades, and makes people's ingrained years of experience and learning largely moot. That doesn't sound like much of a "win" to me. Gow, mingw, cygwin solves a very large need for very many people, for which Powershell is 100% inadequate.

by runjake 14y ago

mkl 14y ago

Plus it's been submitted multiple times in the last few months already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312009 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312009, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085022 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085022

kayoone 14y ago

0.6.0 seems to have been released in the last 24 hours. You are probably right with the rest though

dmboyd 14y ago

Giving the guy a break, it does look like he doesn't "get" github, as it hosts the sources(not in an easily buildable format) as a binary download. and the content of the repo is just random batch files. And, regarding batch files, if it gets the job done (i.e. M4 autoconf scripts). What would powershell give you?

bmatzelle 14y ago

I am the author of Gow. > This is a junk submission. Where to start? I've never submitted Gow to Hacker News but it does seem to pop up every once and a while and it gets the project a few hits. This is a project I work on in my free time (and I get paid very well hourly so it's expensive to me) and if it weren't for programmers like me you wouldn't be able to do half the things you can do on your computer, so unless you've spent thousands of hours coding for free then please stop spreading the hate. > This project hasn't shown activity in 10 months. Please do your research. I just made a big release yesterday so the user that posted this wasn't just spamming HN. https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/change_log https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/change_log > Furthermore, the project is largely written in VBScript and batch files, which is insanity I wrote that script 10 years ago and it works with every version of Windows from Windows 2000 on. I made Gow so I could use Unix utilities on all versions of Windows. If I wrote it in PowerShell then it would force all users to either use a new version of Windows or download the PowerShell installer for zero added benefit. The script just adds Gow\bin to the PATH. Gow certainly doesn't need PowerShell for that.

michaelcampbell 14y ago

> It was time to move to Powershell a long, long time ago. Except Powershell uses a wholly different paradigm, won't run people's favorite shell scripts they've carried around with them for decades, and makes people's ingrained years of experience and learning largely moot. That doesn't sound like much of a "win" to me. Gow, mingw, cygwin solves a very large need for very many people, for which Powershell is 100% inadequate.