Re: Scripts & i18n

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> writes:

> Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > 
> > >  Bash scripts can now easily internationalized with gettext.
> > 
> > Ha! If we have known that a few months ago perhaps we wouldn't have 
> > started rewriting the boot-floppies dinstall script in C. :-)
> 
> We don't have bash on the Rescue Disk. It is plain old arcane ash.

And besides dinstall is slow enough for a C-rewrite to be a very
welcome thing for slower machines.

-- 
James


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