Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:48:10 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vi Makefile Message-ID: <199612302348.AAA18954@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612302211.XAA00711@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at "Dec 30, 96 11:11:37 pm"
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(Nothing about committing anymore, moved to -current.) As sos@FreeBSD.org wrote: > All in all I just think its rediculous that we have almost doubled > the size of of src tree but have gained almost no extra functionality.. No extra functionality: maybe. But nothing gained: no. Replacing blatant shell scripts (and sometimes unintelligible ones) by Perl did at least gain speed. Do you still remember the old catman(1)? I've looked at a shell script today that accompanies mgetty+sendfax, as an add-on (new_fax). When i first called it, with the provided sample config file, my process accounting file grew by 300+ lines. :-O (After looking into it, it's been a typical Perl candidate, and even as a shell script, poorly coded.) I think there are similar arguments for replacing this or that uglyhack program by a Tcl script, it's just that i'm not this familiar with Tcl. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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