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Subject: RE: OT: possible project/research project
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:12:26 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Randall..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:rrschulz AT cris DOT com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:47 AM
> To: Robert Collins; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: OT: possible project/research project

> >No - sounds like you haven't been paying attention. In my very first 
> >email I pointed out that this was not an acceptable 
> approach, and that 
> >committing changes upstream would be the only meaningful way 
> of doing 
> >this.
> 
> Are you saying you think you're going to convince the 
> maintainers of these 
> special programs that have been endowed with the ability to operate 
> parasitically in your special version of the shell to let you 
> put these 
> changes into their mainline code bases? Good luck!
 
I'm saying that not doing that makes the maintenance untenable - at
first, second and third glance. If it's not a good enough model with
real enough potential for them to agree, then it's not worth doing.
 
> >Nearly everyone here does - most scripts have #!/bin/sh in 
> the header.
> 
> Perhaps. I do, but only until I want to use a BASH feature 
> that ash doesn't 
> have.

> >"The best is the enemy of the good."
> >- Voltaire "
> 
> Yes, yes. I've been around long enough to have heard all of these.
> 
> Don't forget this:
> 
> "... this is the best of all possible worlds."
>   -- Voltaire

Yup... and murphy was an optimist!.

Oh, for the objectivity thing.... yes I'm defending it, but I'm not in
love with it per se - that more acceptable?

Rob

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