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Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day



On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:49:44PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> > The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
> > in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
> > it in the first place).
> How is that an advantage of use?

One may want to use tools written in a language they know, so that if
something breaks, it may be easier to fix it.

I, for one, do this kind of reasoning, and don't feel much comfortable
in running things written in languages I don't know (yet).


Ciao,

Enrico

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GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>

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