Summer of code 2008 - cmd.exe compatibility?

[Ann & Jason Edmeades]

Hiya,

Out of interest, what is meant by improving cmd.exe compatibility?

Jason

[Lei Zhang]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Ann & Jason Edmeades  wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Out of interest, what is meant by improving cmd.exe compatibility?

Add support for all the cmd.exe switches and all the dos batch
programming constructs?

[Edward Savage]

Does this also include applications that dump data to cmd.exe will
have it show now instead of not as is current?

(Ie Eve Online starts with a console, under windows it will list a
bunch of starting information for the game in cmd, under wine the box
remains empty unless their is a memory error.  The same is the case
for several server applications.)

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Lei Zhang  wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Ann & Jason Edmeades  wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Out of interest, what is meant by improving cmd.exe compatibility?
>
> Add support for all the cmd.exe switches and all the dos batch
>  programming constructs?

[Ann & Jason Edmeades]

> > Out of interest, what is meant by improving cmd.exe compatibility?
> Add support for all the cmd.exe switches and all the dos batch
> programming constructs?

I do track bugzilla for any cmd.exe issues regularly and aside from one
which I started work on, I don't know of any other batch issues. I spent
quite a bit of time working on cmd.exe compatibility, including adding the
newer 'odd' syntax (e.g. %~$PATH:i) and getting it as close to native as
possible. Additionally, the 'missing' commands are almost all external
applications, not inbuilt to the command shell.

I do know of some differences, but few apps require complex batch. You can
download some complex batch which require specific text to come out from
specific commands, but if no real app needs them, its not worth persuing
yet.

Jason