On 2007-05-07 12:13:43 -0700, David Liontooth wrote: > sorry for thinking it was so unlikely this was ported that I didn't even > look! I'll be interested to see what's included. > > This is very cool, as it allows my scripts to be crossplatform.
But you need to use the with_default_names variant *and* have $prefix/bin in your path first, because gdate doesn't exist under Linux. If your scripts run in background, there's some risk of race condition when coreutils is upgraded (because the old version is deactivated before the new one is activated). And you never know if there will be changes under Linux (for instance, coreutils provides a "hostname" command, but Linux currently uses another one). For all these reasons (and the fact that the output of the shell commands depends on the locales), I think that it is a better idea to use Perl instead of shell scripts if you want portable scripts. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
