From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 20 2:41:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 02:41:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B3F37B402 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:41:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA06946; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:39:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Doug Barton , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A perlified gensetdefs References: <3A401362.6EA9E607@cup.hp.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Dec 2000 11:39:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:03:14 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar writes: > I choose perl(1) because I couldn't find a sufficiently efficient > solution otherwise. I've given it some more thought and can probably do > it with sed(1), awk(1) and the likes. The only objection I've had so far > is that we should not depend on perl(1) and I can see why, so I'm going > to rewrite the script... Don't be ridiculous - we already depend on Perl for kernel builds, and have for more than a year, and with a Perl script there's at least a chance that someone might understand the code (which I consider a good thing, though there may be some monkeys who would prefer to keep the kernel to themselves and resent any change that makes it easy for others to understand and maintain). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message