On 9/6/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wasn't the _point_.
Agreed - sorry I should have qualified my comment. I agree with having useful extensions for ease of development. And I agree with the suggestion of installing them with stripped extensions -- to extend the abstraction. OTOH... > The point is, naming things as being "scripts" is useful. Grep is just an > example. Naming things as being ".pl" or ".sh" is _not_ useful. Hrmmm. Not so convinced about that. There are good reasons to distinguish files with different internal syntax. Perhaps it's your C-bias but for script maintainers it isn't helpful to deal with -script prefixes. If a bash script is rewritten in C, it is a useful and meaningful change (from a developer perspective) that the file changes name. Both can live in the tree while the new one matures, running diffs or pickaxes will show one file created and another removed, instead of a very meaningless diff. The same applies if it is rewritten in Perl, or Python. IOW: Perl programmers are developers too ;-) cheers, martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
