On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:30:40AM +0200, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> It's not a reliable system when any application can fail because it either
> expects something that all of the other distros, except us, have (sh -> bash)
Yes, condoning bad code practices is the way to go. Go install your
ubuntu.
> or we've done something to it without having much clue about original
> developers' reasons for a particular choice (ripping out internal versions of
> various libs).
Half the time the original developers "don't have a clue", so your
argument fails.
> (python -- I'm
> quite sure it's authors never meant for it to be distributed the way we do)
The more I know about python the more I am assured it's a joke language.
> The only part where we actually prefer not to have bash is where our own
> (made
You and who else?
> in-house) scripts are concerned. All other scripts should be run with what
> their authors expected, and that's bash (the Have It Just Work rule). The
Bullshit. The scripts that expect bash have "#!/bin/bash" in header, not
"#!/bin/sh".
wolf
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