Re: adduser rewrite
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > In reference to a message from Roland Bauerschmidt, dated Aug 28:
> > > I am in the process of rewriting adduser from scratch in Python... There
> >
> > Please don't. adduser is in base and part of the boot-floppies bootstrap
> > process. Creating more dependencies is a Bad Thing(tm).
> >
> > If anything, rewrite it in C and help us drop perl from the base
> > tarball.
> >
>
>
> I guess C++ will be as good as C for this matter, will it?
Seen the fact that C++ is/has been changing its ABI quite often, plus that
some applications don't compile quite clean with gpp 3.0 (yet), I'd rather
wait with C++ apps for a while...
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