[stellation-res] Scripts in Stellation

["Jonathan Gossage" <jgossage@xxxxxxxx>]

Scripts are used in a number of places in Stellation, both as application
launchers and as test harnesses. Currently these scripts are implemented as
shell scripts, either for bash or sh. This presents a problem on Windows
platforms even those where Cygwin is installed. Basically, any *nix script
that deals with file manipulation needs modification in Cygwin to handle
translation between DOS and *nix paths using Cygwin specific extensions.
While it would be possible to modify these scripts so that they could run
native in a *nix environment or in Cygwin, I do not believe that we should
be relying on Cygwin as a Windows environent over the long term.

I would like to propose that the current scripts be rewritten in a platform
independent scripting language such as Perl or Python. If this is done right
we will have one set of scripts that can be used on all platforms, perhaps
with some conditional platform dependent code in them.

Regards

Jonathan

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