On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 1:24 PM Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mail...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le 2019-03-26 12:29, Dridi Boukelmoune a écrit :
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:43 AM Nicolas Mailhot
> > <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Le 2019-03-25 22:47, Japheth Cleaver a écrit :
> >> > If you can take a one-time hit to
> >> > remove bashisms and get a 25-40% improvement,
> >>
> >> CPU time is cheap, packager time is not. Exchanging CPU time for "you
> >> all should learn to write POSIX-only shell scripts" would be an awful
> >> deal. The Java part of Fedora is slowly imploding right now because a
> >> lot of people pushed their complexity on packagers, and the packagers
> >> could not cope. The Fedora target should be to help packagers achieve
> >> more with less work, not achieve less with more work.
> >
> > I think the Java ecosystem is before all imploding because of build
> > tools
> > promoting a quadratic complexity of dependencies in a "community" not
> > bothered to maintain compatibility in libraries and as a result the
> > other
> > side of the community coin not updating dependencies they consume
> > unless they feel like they need it.
>
> It's an ecosystem where tools do not orient devs towards easy to
> integrate choices. It's imploding because someone decided a long time
> ago @SUN not to bother optimising the integrator/packager time,and all
> the efforts to change the Java community values since have failed (and
> someone should look hard @RH why it has not leveraged its stake in
> JBoss/OpenJDK to improve the situation).
>
> Another victim of those choices and Java ecosystem values was Oracle
> that found itself unable to release timely JDK security fixes when it
> had to in the first years after it bought SUN, the integrator chain it
> bought from SUN was that much broken.

I was rather thinking about all the damage made on the java ecosystem
by the introduction of maven but fair enough.

> Packager time is not cheap, it's not inexhaustible, it runs out. Wasting
> it on bashisms is not smart.

As I said, I don't care if Fedora wants to have bash as the default
shell, especially as the default RPM script interpreter.

It's specifically /bin/sh being bash that bothers me as a Fedora end-user.


Dridi
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