-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes BS is a a very useful tool indeed. It is used in several places, also some of my scripts - it is often a fast, simple and easy solution.
> We had some discussions in the IRC channel about BS. There are so > many problems about using BS in different systems. So many people > don't want to run patch.exe and so many people are using servers > for running bots and don't have permission to do that. I understand that we had alread several discussion about it indeed. A hard thing for me is to help or solve the situation because I never got any feadback WHY running patch.exe is such a big issue? I just always heard "I don't like it." - ok, but WHY? It is not dangerous at all AND it is a standard tool, in fact it is the base on which git works... > My suggestion is using the old system (an internal folder as an > external like i18n but I don't think we need to make another > external) but if you think we can do something else I'll be glad to > discuss What do you exactly mean with "old system"? Do you want to create a repo 'externals' and just drop BS there in order to use as submodule? Or what was the concept? > Please keep in mind compatibility is one of the most important > issues of PWB Indeed! The current solution (using patch) is compatible with linux/mac (since patch is in the OS distro there) and with win through patch.exe. In fact win in the main problem here... ;)) Any other important OS that I missed? (and does not have patch like all/most? unix) And may be I should also mention that not only BS is an issue in this context, there are some other modules also - I sent the link with the list in a previous mail. I would be VERY happy to finally find a solution here! Greetings and all the best! DrTrigon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlISgUAACgkQAXWvBxzBrDAxXgCdE46gBgRXjNnTeulFCkkw2+D5 bQ8An1aEUXwIrHLl+b3Tvo3NsEPzLebM =1HKM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
