On 04/08/2011 06:32 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 8/4/2011 10:25, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Under Windows, it's way harder to do this via the CLI, but also way
>> easier for the tiny number of systems that support stuff like COM.
>
> Almost everything on Windows supports COM. COM has been around since
> Win3. I'm not sure why you think it's a tiny number, except for the
> programs actually ported poorly from Unix, or the programs ported from
> Unix where people say "why would you ever want to automate this with a
> *standard* scripting language?"

Perhaps it's because almost everything I use is FOSS?

Does POV-Ray support COM? Is Windows the primary development platform 
for POV-Ray? Exactly.

Does 7zip support COM? How about Firefox? Google Earth? Sketchup?

None of these are exactly "small" or "obscure" or "primarily for Linux". 
And yet, no COM.

But in trying to come up with a list... yeah, most of the stuff I have 
is FOSS, which probably explains why no COM.

Now, aside from that matter, the thing which really puzzles me is this: 
If something *does* support COM, how the hell do you *use* it? You of 
all people are often talking about "hey, I used COM to connect my coffee 
machine to my diskwasher", but how the hell do you actually *do* that? 
I've never figured this out.

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