Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> writes: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> ]] Ben Hutchings >> >> > > Not all duplicate file finder programs are exact copies of each other, >> > > so dedupdedup embeds a simple AI system to compare programs, based on >> > > package descriptions, --help output, and manual pages, to verify that >> > > only the most complete of such programs remains. >> > >> > Can like this be generalised to dedupe web servers, window managers and >> > init systems? >> >> aekeech6 can, at least. > > Given that yours is written in C and is therefore inflexible, and mine's > in Python and therefore easy to hack, isn't it obvious that mine's going > to be better in the long run? > > Though I guess we could support both, and define an interchange format > for exchanging data between our two systems.
I object to both programs, as they both will require hacks to run under Debian GNU/Emacs as that OS only supports elisp natively. Furthermore, Lisp is _the_ best language, ever, anyway. So I'd like to ask you both to drop your futile attempts at trying to be better than what can be done with a few lines of lisp: ,---- | (require 'os) | (require 'ai) | (find-dupes is-dup?) `---- But, since freedom of choice IS important, and not everyone has seen the Light yet, I suppose we can maintain all three. But I strongly suggest the interchange format to be lisp code. Or better yet, the interchange format be the source of the emacs deduplicator itself. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obrbtpkl....@luthien.mhp
