Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:51:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr Makefile Message-ID: <199508301051.DAA07817@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <2289.809769683@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 30, 95 01:01:23 am
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> > > And a command interface wrapper that is compatible with sendbug. Shell > > scripts written for automagic sendbug sending are going to barf on gnats. > > Which ones are those? Auspex boxes for one, but I guess I can always redo it when I desire that functionality for a FreeBSD class NFS super engine. Let me see, ah, all the mirror wrapper stuff I wrote back when we used sendbug for the patchkit and such would fail to mirror correctly. > > IMHO, this is an incompatibility hack with every other BSD system in > > existence. If it is called ``sendbug'' it had better behave exactly > > like sendbug or people and shell scripts are going for a shocker. > > No more or less than if it comes back with sendbug: command not found. And I don't necessarily agree that it should do that, I guess the real guts of it are that bugfiler is now missing, so those sites that used BSD systems and the bugfiler (not many, but I have named at least 1 commercial vendor that does ship there system standard that way, right down to the point that every single panic has an auto invokation of sendbug, and the necessary servers running at headquarters to get them). For smaller sites who want a nice little bug filling system bugfiler and sendbug are a snap to set up. We have a small part of gnats in the tree, but what is there does not provide the customer with any server side. > The manual pages in 4.4 just reference `sendbug' as an interactive > command you're supposed to run. In that context, and it's the major > one, I don't see a problem. You missed the whole other side of sendbug mentioned in the real 4.4 BSD manuals... > Next argument please. Gnats is neat and full of very complex features, bugfiler/sendbug is small and easy to use and manage. Much like emacs is large and complex and hard to use, and ee is small and simple... :-). Get my drift... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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