Hi David!

On Do, 06 Aug 2015, David Champion wrote:

> * On 06 Aug 2015, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: 
> > Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > Yeah, the sed script is not portable. Better to replace it by perl 
> > > (patch attached)
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch.  Is there any reason you didn't translate
> > > -     -e 's/??/\?\?/g' \
> > to perl?
> > 
> > dgc, looks like you originally committed this, do you have any comments?
> 
> I tend to avoid perl/python/etc when more basic utilities will do.  It's
> true that virtually every system has perl preinstalled now, but mutt
> is also used on very bare-bones platforms (which is why the C version
> exists; there's a C compiler by definition).

In general I agree, but on the other hand, it seems to be easier to 
maintain and also it looks like this is what other projects do as well 
(e.g. git).

> 1. We can support BSD's sed for txt2c.sh. The difference is just that
> BSD sed only supports \n a an ascii escape.  (Will need literals in the
> makefile.)  But -

What about other seds from other Unices?


regards,
Christian
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