Re: [Fink-devel] how to set .cshrc

[Max Horn]

Am Freitag, 14.03.03 um 21:13 Uhr schrieb David R. Morrison:

[...]

          case yes) check if "source %p/sw/init.csh" is already in the
                    .tcshrc
How exactly could this be done? Considering that scripts can include 
arbitrary other scripts? Also, the "source" statement could be 
commented out etc.

What I want to say is: tools that manipulate shell scripts (or other 
textual config files) always have a big potential of messing up if not 
designed very carefully. The only way to get them always right usually 
is to fully parse the file in question, but that's not really feasible 
for shell scripts, I fear... I do not want to make this idea bad, I 
just want to stress that it's vital such a tool is designed and tested 
with this in mind. In particular, a suite of test cases should be 
defined and then any release of that tool run on that test suite. At 
least the default actions  should never mess up the system.

Max



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