Re: Question about adding a tiny tool into GNU coreutils (original) (raw)

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From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Question about adding a tiny tool into GNU coreutils
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:49:11 +0100

Voelker, Bernhard wrote:

Jim Meyering wrote: > Daniel Borkmann wrote: >> I think it would rather fit into the coreutils than having it's own >> distribution package. What do you think? (Source attached) > ... > Thanks for the suggestion, but it seems better to > do that with some shell and perl:

regardless if it's written in C, shell+perl or any other language, it's still the same question IMHO: should it go into coreutils?

+1 from me (for the C alternative, no deps to shell/perl etc.).

Sorry, but this is a developer tool, and it's fine to assume shell and perl for such tools. Not to mention the fact that maintaining what is effectively a one-line shell script beats maintaining 100+-lines of C hands down.

I'm all for adding such small scripts to a contrib/ directory. ... just waiting for someone motivated enough to handle all of the tedious details.