Jim Meyering wrote:
However, I have a profound aversion to using a shell script
for any task that I require to be executed in a robust manner.
As such, my medium-term goal is to prototype a perl-based tool
using IO:Compress that can do the job more efficiently and more
robustly than bourne shell-based code can.
Are you sure a runtime dependency of the gzip package on perl is worth
the trouble?
In any case the coordination issue remains open.
If your future perl-based tools are for gzip files only, like the
current ones, then I think it is better to rename them to gzdiff, etc.
If your future perl-based tools are multi-format, then I think it is
better to package them independently of compressors. Meanwhile, I think
it is better to rename the current gzip-only scripts to gzdiff, etc.
What do you think?
Regards,
Antonio.
