On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:32:22 -0800 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> writes: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >> Why not keep the main maintainer script to be /bin/sh and use > >> python within optional compoent. I mean: > > > In any case C could be used to avoid any other sort of dependency. > > Yeah, but doing string manipulation in C is fairly painful and > difficult to maintain in the long run. I suspect that shell, sed, > and awk, despite its disadvantages, would still be easier and clearer > than using C for this sort of transformation. (And all of those > tools are already essential and likely to be present even on most > embedded platforms that would use a full dpkg implementation since > they aren't particularly large.) I know the intended meaning but I can't help but see the irony of recommending tools written in C as a solution for the difficulties of handling strings in C . . . Proven code etc. etc. but still. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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