On 02/05/2011 03:41 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Please keep discussion on the mailing list, and not to me privately, > so that all may participate. Thanks.
Sorry, my bad, I just forgot to change the address. Fixed. <snippy-snip> > People are often writing to the mailing list asking to include their > code in coreutils. I believe that is the same impression > that everyone else had too. I don't believe you can guess what other people are thinking with any kind of certainty. Unless you are "Bob" ;) Also, you keep implying that I asked to include my code in coreutils. I did not. I was upfront about reusing as much code as possible. I never had to work with a codebase this size, so some of my decisions are almost certainly stupid. In particular, if linking with the existing tree is not a good technical solution and copying and pasting would be better, I would like to know that. > This continues the impression. Here you definitely say that you want > a program and not a C library. Yes, I want a program I can call from a shell. I never claimed otherwise. > I will avoid commenting on the rest of your message. That's fine. I tried to answer all of your questions about why I, and possibly others, may want a utility that prints pseudo-random integers. I gave several arguments for why awk and perl solutions, as good as they are, are deficient compared to the solution in coreutils. I made a clear case, I thought, for why I want to extend *my* copy of coreutils with a simple interface for printing numbers. Since you didn't pose any counter-arguments, I can only assume that it was convincing enough.
