Re: [Ilugc] Some shell scripting

2012-12-26 Thread Mohan R
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 10:07 +0530, Chandrashekar Babu wrote: >http://draketo.de/proj/hg-vs-git-server/test-results.html Kind of a response benchmarking which proved that hg is better. Just one question? did the test used python+Subprocess.call() for all the git call's? I thought libgit.a is

Re: [Ilugc] Some shell scripting

2012-12-26 Thread Chandrashekar Babu
Hi, > > I differ, If you consider Gentoo is a modern distro, then your statement > is wrong. Gentoo as well as its childs still use openRC, not > systemd/upstart. I used the word "Most"; not "All". Gentoo, Slackware and a couple of other distros do not use systemd or upstart yet. Having sa

Re: [Ilugc] Some shell scripting

2012-12-26 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Mohan R wrote: > > I still differ, People who want performance don't consider Python/Ruby. > A careful design can make scalability easier by writing it in C and do an > glue-scripting, rather than Ruby/Python. > When we talk performance, let's talk about what exa

Re: [Ilugc] Some shell scripting

2012-12-26 Thread Mohan R
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 10:54 +0530, Chandrashekar Babu wrote: > Most modern Linux distros however use systemd or upstart > instead of old rc-style shell scripts for performance and > scalability reasons. I differ, If you consider Gentoo is a modern distro, then your statement is wrong. Gentoo as

Re: [Ilugc] Some shell scripting

2012-12-25 Thread Chandrashekar Babu
> I was reading the OpenBSD install script for something and I found > that the simple pdksh script > itself was somewhat ...complex. Slackware Linux installer and package management tools and the plethora of rc scripts on most Linux distros do still use shell scripts. Most modern Linux dist