Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)
On 13 Mar 2003 16:40:25 -0600,
John Hasler wrote:
>
> csj@mindgate.net wrote:
> > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh
> > scripting, OpenOffice.org.
[...]
> I have no faith in the quality of the work of developers who
> would choose to use csh in their build system. I would only
> consider installing the package if the csh is something
> inherited from Sun and is in the process of being replaced.
I know the shortcomings of csh have been discussed elsewhere in
this thread. But tcsh is enhanced csh. (I've actually installed
csh to find out.) OO.o is a multi-OS project, and not all Unix or
Unix-like (attention SCO) systems use or would use bash.
Perhaps you should rephrase your complaint to address a more
significant issue, the presence of non-free software in the build
system of a supposedly free software project: I have no faith in
the quality of the work of developers who would choose to use
Java in their build system.
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