>In many peoples opinion (including mine) rewriting something in perl is >not necessarily an improvement. in this case, it is IMO. i don't like > 100 lines shell scripts. the makefile was an improvement, as it allowed several targets, and more flexibility, but it has several drawbacks. >But the scripts could certainly do with a bit of a re-write, so I guess >if you do it you get to choose the tools. yep, that's the way free software works. andreas