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

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From: Daniel Borkmann
Subject: Re: Question about adding a tiny tool into GNU coreutils
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:52:21 +0100
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Jim Meyering wrote:

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

Despite of the language such a util is written in, I was wondering if it's really only a developer tool? Aren't there enough programs out there that do not ever print their errors correctly? No question that this would be a bad style, but nevertheless, it isn't rarely.

Regards, Daniel

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