Re: Does debian have an official standard scripting language ?

1998-10-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Bill Mitchell wrote: As of debian 2.0, mawk and sed are `required' packages, so they should be present on any debian system. Only the essential flag (or the base-files trick) guarantees a package to be present in the system and allows a package not to have an explicit

Re: Does debian have an official standard scripting language ?

1998-10-10 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an official scripting language ? Even if bash is essential, the standard shell is sh, not bash. [ If you look at our

Does debian have an official standard scripting language ?

1998-10-09 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an official scripting language ? If so, is it perl, python, etc ? The reason I'm asking is largely questions of disk space - ie minimizing the number of scripting languages installed on a system by writing a package which

Re: Does debian have an official standard scripting language ?

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:09:48AM -0700, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an official scripting language ? If so, is it perl, python, etc ? Yes, Bourne Shell :- Bash implements most features of it, afaik. I really wish

Re: Does debian have an official standard scripting language ?

1998-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an official scripting language ? Even if bash is essential, the standard shell is sh, not bash. [ If you look at our shell scripts, most of them are /bin/sh, not /bin/bash

Re: Does debian have an official standard scripting language ?

1998-10-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Geoffrey L. Brimhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an | official scripting language ? | | If so, is it perl, python, etc ? | | The reason I'm asking is largely questions of disk space - ie minimizing the | number of scripting