Datediff script PKGBUILD review

2023-03-22 Thread jamil bio
Hello! I would like to introduce my project to the AUR mailing list. I am about to upload a PKGBUILD of a `datediff.sh' script which does calendrical calculations with shell built-ins, and has got some other few functions as well. Would installing the script as `datediff.sh' to /usr/bin be sta

Datediff script PKGBUILD review (plain text)

2023-03-22 Thread jamil bio
That last e-mail encoding looks borked on my mailing list reader (the terminal), so I am sending the PKGBUILD again. # Maintainer: Jamil SN pkgname='datediff.sh' pkgbase='shellDatediff' pkgver=0.23.4 pkgrel=1 #epoch= pkgdesc='Calculate time differences with Ksh, Bash, and Zsh builtins. Check

Re: Datediff script PKGBUILD review

2023-03-22 Thread Martin Rys
> Would installing the script as `datediff.sh' to /usr/bin be standard? I believe /usr/bin/datediff would. Adding the extension to the executable is non-standard, lots of binaries are plaintext, but they do not carry their extension. Imagine you rewrite your tool to use python instead, now you and

Re: Datediff script PKGBUILD review

2023-03-22 Thread jamil bio
> Adding the extension to the executable is non-standard, Indeed Hroptatyr's 'C-code datediff' already exists in community as 'dateutils'. It is not desirable to install the datediff.sh script as 'datediff' to avoid such instance of conflict.. However, what binary name would be cool to install

Re: Datediff script PKGBUILD review

2023-03-22 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2023-03-22 at 08:33:59 -0300, jamil bio wrote: > > md5 is broken and should not be used, sha256 or similar would be advised. > > Will use other checksum algos... Will switch to sha1. Thanks! SHA1 is broken. As indicated, please use SHA256 (or even SHA512). > On 22/03/2023 08:16, Martin Rys

Re: Datediff script PKGBUILD review

2023-03-22 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:55:44 -0300 jamil bio wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to introduce my project to the AUR mailing list. I am about to > upload a PKGBUILD of a `datediff.sh' script which does calendrical > calculations with shell built-ins, and has got some other few functions as > well. >

Re: Application as Trusted User

2023-03-22 Thread Jelle van der Waa
Hi, On 14/03/2023 15:47, Anton Hvornum wrote: Addendum! On 3/14/23 12:29, Anton Hvornum wrote: Hi! My involvement spans mostly across maintaining archinstall, but I also have a finger in archweb, repod, archiso, mkinitcpio and lately I've become a mirror admin. So I'm getting pretty well r

Re: Application as Trusted User

2023-03-22 Thread Anton Hvornum
On 3/22/23 19:37, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Hi, Actually this is a package you co-maintain, any other packages you have maintained in the AUR? [1] It's hard get a feel about your packaging history without any examples to look at. It's a valid question, and my response would be that I don't th