From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 30 15:51:58 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA29033 for current-outgoing; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 15:51:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA29026 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 15:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA26857 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:51:42 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA18371 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:51:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA18954 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:48:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612302348.AAA18954@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vi Makefile To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:48:10 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612302211.XAA00711@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at "Dec 30, 96 11:11:37 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (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. ;-)