Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:43:14 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Another tool for updating /etc -- lua||other script language bikeshed Message-ID: <201003241343.14145.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <hod8p8$iuc$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <201003231108.45102.jhb@freebsd.org> <201003241002.56335.jhb@freebsd.org> <hod8p8$iuc$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 10:49:12 am Ivan Voras wrote: > On 03/24/10 15:02, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 9:11:21 am Ivan Voras wrote: > >> On 03/23/10 16:08, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> [snip - looks like a good utility, will probably use it instead of > >> mergemaster if it gets committed, like the idea about automated updates] > >> > >>> To that end, I wrote a new tool that I think does a decent job of solving > >>> these goals. > >> > >> Since the issue comes around very rarely, I assume there are not many > >> people who also get the shivers when they see a shell script (and then a > >> "posixy" /bin/sh shell script) more than a 100 lines long? :) > >> > >> Wouldn't it be nice to have a "blessed" (i.e. present-in-base) script > >> language interpreter with a syntax that has evolved since the 1970-ies? > >> (with a side-glance to C that *has* evolved since the K&R style). > > > > "You can write Fortran in any language." > > I feel I should quote some saying from a holy book saying "Ah, but some > languages make it harder than the others!" but I don't know of any such :) > > > If there are specific things in specific scripts that are poorly commented or > > implemented then I would work on fixing those. The same is true of the > > mountain of C code in the tree. Rewriting them in a different language will > > not automatically make them any better. > > C is good enough. I'm after /bin/sh here. I think if you were to read the source to etcupdate.sh you would find that it is actually rather close to how I would write it if I were to do it in C (except it is far less complicated now since I can use tools like diff directly). -- John Baldwin
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