Re: Bug#558684: ITP: envstore -- save and restore environment variables
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do April Fools' Day occur in November in some part of the world?
>
> On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 21:01 +0100, Maximilian Gass wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>>
>> * Package name : envstore
>> Version : 2.0
>> Upstream Author : Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>
>> * URL : https://derf.homelinux.org/~derf/projects/envstore/
>> * License : WTFPL
>
> WTF?
>
> Please Sam, drop your F* webpage. The [Open-Source] world don't need yet
> another license. Or make it clear that no one should actually use it.
FWIW, the WTFPL is accepted as compatible with the GPL by the Free
Software Foundation:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
That is, at least version 2 of that license...
>
>> Description : save and restore environment variables
>>
>> envstore allows you to save environment variables into a seperate store, list
>> them, and reload them into the shell again.
>
> In most situation, this packaged can be replaced with:
>
> echo $FOO > ~/.var_FOO
> then
> FOO=$(cat ~/.var_FOO)
>
> In some exceptional situation, where the variable variables and escape
> code should be preserved, one can use:
> export | grep " PS4=" > ~/.var_FOO
> then
> . ~/.var_FOO
>
> (No, it isn't guaranteed to be portable, and there might even be easier
> ways to achieve all this).
>
> I wonder how Unix could survive 30 years without such command.
>
> Franklin
>
>
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