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Single quotes on windows act odd #85

Open tarrow opened 8 years ago

tarrow commented 8 years ago

We get many more results than expected when using a multiword query on windows with single quotes than with double quotes. The expected behaviour occurs on windows with double quotes and with unix.

blahah commented 8 years ago

This is a 'feature' of the windows command line :)

tarrow commented 8 years ago

This should be dealt with some documentation them. Perhaps I will test and recommend that windows users use something like cmder. This would be good so that they can run the whole pipeline from the same command line interface.

blahah commented 8 years ago

OK - in general I make no attempt to support windows because any one of the dependencies could easily break it. I also don't have access to a windows machine, so I can't test new releases before making them. I wonder if we should just suggest people use a VM until we have a cross-platform GUI?

tarrow commented 8 years ago

I would like to try and have things working on windows if possible; I think most people prefer something native and the VM introduces its own problems; for example VirtualBox not running properly on a given machine.

I think the dependencies issues are not actually all that large. We don't depend on anything in node that isn't JS so npm handles that fine and maven already builds jar's with all of the dependencies required for all the platforms.

Another advantage of running natively is that people can easily get at the data that they've made/downloaded where as prying it from within the VM is not always easy.

Have you come across situations where we are tripped up by a dependency?