Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:23:44PM -0500, David Steele wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:21 PM David Steele <steele@debian.org> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
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> >> Are people using /usr/bin/todo in script or Makefile ?
> >> Are they likely to still work with the alternatives ?
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> > I'd say no. It is an interactive end-user command.
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> > This gives flexibility in what they are interacting with.
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> This is no more of a stretch than "vi" implementing "editor".
Note that even in this case there is a minimal common interface required
so that programms can call '/usr/bin/editor file' to let the user edit
'file'.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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