On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:54:11AM +0100, Erika Pacholleck wrote: >[08.03.02 00:03 +0100] Marco Fioretti <-- : >> About this particular project: let's just do it in whatever language >> the majority of the volunteers is ALREADY proficient with, not with the one >> which the majority of the list thinks better for any reason. > >I do not agree to this, one thing I would ask you to consider: > >Take a language which you can expect to be present on minimal systems. >Otherwise you might end up in dependencies which are no advantage for >mutt. One of the advantages of console progs is that they do not need >hundreds of extra languages installed to get them going. > >Speaking of installing a distro (which most beginners would do) those >are already blown up enough, now imagine you would for example need >a jre just for the mutt config tool .. -- speaking of compiling mutt >yourself (which more experienced would do but which does not mean that >they understand all the muttrc values) is even worse if (often seen) >the documentation does not mention all dependencies. And as a result of >that, it might happen that a user of netscape/kde/pine.. who has heard >of mutts capabilities and wants to try that, will stay with his old >one because the only alternate to those depencies would be vim+manual. > >Viewing from this point, perl would be a good choice and as far as I >saw from former postings it might turn out to become perl. >-- >Erika Pacholleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >mutters: insert vowels of last name
I agree with this logic; there's nothing that this shell script needs
to do that can't be done with a Bourne shell script. That's the one
interpreter you're always guaranteed to have. Now, having said that, I
would imagine that most systems that have mutt installed will also have
perl... :)
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