Am Mon, 2003-08-18 um 14.24 schrieb Dimitrie O. Paun: > First, I don't know perl, so that was not an option. As for bash, the > kind of argument manipulations we're doing are not easily achieved in > bash, and it seemed it would have been cleaner to do it in C.
I am not sure what manipulations you're talking about; AFAICS the hard stuff is done by winebuild anyway. What I don't like about C in this case is that all the low-level stuff (realloc() and friends) makes the code hard to read and prone to buffer overflows and the like. Anyway, you do the work, you decide. > Moreover, it seems that C is way more prefered > (on average) than scripting languages, and in fact it's a better way > of inviting contributions. See the latest attempt to use Perl for our > conformance tests... Yeah, the wine guys like low-level coding :-) Perhaps I'll contribute a bash version of winewrap soon, just for fun. Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
