2021-04-11 clj-on-windows | Clojure Slack Archive

re: winget, I didn't realize winget was a Microsoft tool. might be worth pursueing

maybe, but not yet.

Is it a known issue that powershell splits command line args like this?

-foo:bar:bar
:args ("-foo:" "bar:bar")

Yeah, this is some “special” parsing they do

Only in the Windows powershell, not in the macOS Powershell. It's really special

This snippet from the powershell stuff seems to suggest so?

} elseif ($arg -ceq '-X:') {
      $Mode = "exec"
      $kw, $params = $params
      $ExecAliases = ":$kw"
      $ClojureArgs += $params

This makes command line arg parsing even more complex. Oh well.

So if I write the arg parsing in some general purpose programming language I have to detect "if invoked from powershell"? How do I do this?

or maybe just make a special rule that always is like: when passing args like -X: foo these args are considered together, even in bash?

might be a trade-off...

I'll only apply that workaround on Windows

or wait, powershell also works on linux and macos nowadays

On Windows PS:

bb -e '*command-line-args*' -X:foo:bar
("-X:" "foo:bar")

On macOS PS:

bb -e '*command-line-args*' -X:foo:bar
("-X:foo:bar")

Juxt checking: -A:, -M: and -X: are the only args that receive optional aliases appended to it, amirite?

according to the help yes. duckie

I wonder if the clojure CLI for Windows works on macOS powershell, but I'm not going there...

I expect the above edge case to break it

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