2015-01-16 23:46 GMT+01:00 Reuben Thomas <[email protected]>: > On 16 January 2015 at 22:44, Jerome Leclanche <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> xdg-utils does not depend on perl; all the tools are in shell. You >> should talk to your distro. > > > If you read back to the beginning of my thread, you'll see my suggestion to > use Perl. Indeed, currently xdg-utils does not. >
Your email is very confusing; did you forget to send a part of it? Anyway, if your thinking is that xdg-utils tools should be rewritten in [x], well, go right ahead... If you remain compatible with the current interface, I'm sure it'll end up being useful to someone. Users won't care about any difference, and honestly no matter which language they're written in they are unlikely to receive any more contributions than they currently do, so you won't convince any current maintainer of anything like that. Don't get me wrong, they are *nasty* right now. But this is fairly pointless. And why Perl of all things? I reimplemented some xdg utils tools in Python because I needed the functionality in Python for a side project. But they are useless and you won't convince anyone to adopt them over what is known to work, for the sake of technical debt in a project that has extremely low activity overall. J. Leclanche _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
