Hi, On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:33:47AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> That gets recursive very, very quickly. I don't know of any maintainer > scripts that are truly architecture-neutral because even a shell script > ends up calling binary executables to do the work. How much can you > realistically do in a POSIX shell without calling 'cp', 'ls', 'grep', > 'echo', 'mv' or 'ldconfig'? What about the shell interpreter itself? > That's compiled. Hence my script parser approach. I understand what "cp" does, so I don't need to run the target binary. > Emdebian certainly doesn't want to encourage maintainer scripts using > perl or python because Crush won't support either interpreter. That, and I'd need to write another parser if I wanted to handle it using my method. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
