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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:03:08 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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According to Brian Dessent on 7/7/2005 7:41 PM:
> 
> Option B would be to write a C or C++ program to do the job of what
> rebaseall currently does.  That's even more work.

True - there are many actions where scripts are just more convenient than
full-blown programs, even though it introduces a dependency on the shell
running the script.

> 
> When I mentioned a static bash I was thinking of just making the base
> package statically compiled, not having an alternative.  Somehow I
> imagined that this would make it a little faster too, but that's
> probably going to be insignificant.
> 
> I'm also wondering if the issue would ever come up in postinstall
> scripts.  Where before with ash or bash 2.x, we only required a working
> Cygwin DLL, now any postinstall script has to also have these 4 core
> DLLs in addition to the Cygwin DLL in place for any postinstall to
> function.  I haven't really though this through though, as to whether
> this scenario matters.

coreutils already requires libintl and libiconv since 5.2.1 days, so most
useful actions in a postinstall script have already depended on having
libraries available as part of Base.  Based on several months of no
complaints, I think we can discount the theoretical problems of this scenario.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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