So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:48:54PM +0200:
> You really seem to have problems to get it:
It seems that I don't get what you want, that's right.
>
> 1) I warn poeple when FSF programs do make life harder.
Why make tools with a greater ease of use life harder?
>
> - Look at the GNU tar source and judge your own. The
> GNU tar source is a big pile of spaghetti code. It is
> hard to find bugs by people who are not used to work on it.
That's right.
>
> - Next time you will send me a bug report for cdrecord,
> I will tell you that it is _your_ task to find a patch
> for the bug. So please stay resonable!
I don't get it - if I have a problem with cdrecord, it's of course my task
to either write a patch for it and tell you about it, or to at least inform
you, the author, about it. But why should I tell the guy next door that I
have a problem with cdrecord, so that he writes a patch to cdrecord? That's
what you are suggesting wrt. tar - you've said that I should patch tar. I'm
not the author of tar. So what I said was reasonable - maybe my choice of
words was not.
> >Why? Just because the shell scripts are incompatible with bash? So upgrade
> >your shell scripts!
>
> Stay reasonable: if you like to force people to change to a nonstandard shell,
> you should first "upgrade" several hundreds of kilobytes of shell code from
> Solaris and tell the administrators that you are going to give them 7/24 support
> for your changes and for bash.
Okay, but he used /bin/bash, didn't he? With this approach, it is very much
portable, as /bin/bash is not the default shell. So both mine and your
remarks are exaggerated.
> But there is no portable way to do it. The question is: do you really need
> su a nonstandard feature?
Good question. To enhance the ease of use: Yes, you do need such a feature.
But he may write something like I suggeseted, together with:
# If your system does not provide a /proc/kcore file or the 'free' tool,
# please enter the amount of system memory manually.
Alexander Skwar
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