Re: Re: skinning a cat

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 16:23 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 07:52 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Lupus Michaelis wrote: > >> > >> > Robert Cummings a écrit : > >> > > >> >> Try running that on windows. > >> > > >> > No problem > >> > > >> > <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/interopmigration/bb380242.aspx> > >> > > >> > >> And of course, there's also Cygwin. > > > > *lol* And I quote: > > > > Per Jessen said: > > "I'm probably old fashioned, but to me all that stuff is way > > overkill." > > > > And now your suggesting installing cygwin to accomplish something so > > easily accomplished in PHP. > > > > Yeesh. > > Rob, I've never suggested anything like that. But if you were to ask me > how to get a fairly decent Unix-like environment on a Windows platform, > yes, I would suggest using Cygwin. You originally said it was overkill to use my lock class and then went on to show your shell script doing similar. To which I then responded try running the shell script in windows. To which you've now suggested installing cygwin. Thus you have suggested a shell script and cygwin to accomplish what a simple lock class easily achieves in both linux and windows. It all goes back to that original argument you brought up where you said the lock class was overkill. I haven't even commented on the complexity added by introducing a second technology (And third now that cygwin is on the table). I'm sure this is a prime example for the application of Occam's Razor. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP