2008/7/17 Mariusz Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, condoning bad code practices is the way to go. Go install your > > ubuntu. > It's "bad" in theory. In practice, for the past maaaany years nobody gives a > shit about theory in case of /bin/sh. Bad for them.
> So that's top score for theory and a FAIL on the reality check. Flushing quality down the toilet is not an option. > > Half the time the original developers "don't have a clue", so your > > argument fails. > Then fix upstream. The number of sane developers without inferiority complex is very low and I don't like to talk with idiots if I don't have to. > I'd rather default to assuming that the guys who wrote > the stuff know better than Joe Random Developer does. I'm actually *using* > their code, so I kind of assume they have some kind of clue. I actually have enough *experience* to *know* that most of the time they don't. > > > (python -- I'm > > > quite sure it's authors never meant for it to be distributed the way we > > > do) > > The more I know about python the more I am assured it's a joke language. > That's not an argument. Running debug code by default and requiring special knobs for having release code ran is kind of funny if I don't have to use it. > > > The only part where we actually prefer not to have bash is where our own > > > (made in-house) scripts are concerned. > > You and who else? > And concerning the point of that sentence? Anything you'd like to say? Maybe > that it's false or sth? With some specific reasons as to why? Of course it's false. You are speaking strictly for yourself, yet you are manipulating everyone to think that's a widely applauded opinion (by using "we" instead of "I"). > > Bullshit. The scripts that expect bash have "#!/bin/bash" in header, not > > "#!/bin/sh". > That's true only for the scripts whose authors (a) know there are distros that > don't use bash as sh You were saying something about developers "having a clue" recently? > (b) give a shit. We know that you don't. > Doing it 'our way' is simply pointless Our way? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh > (what exactly do we gain?). Speed, correctness, etc. _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en