Bug#412724: ITP: hg-buildpackage -- Suite to help with Debian packages in Mercurial archives
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:03:18PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> Hi!
> [John has rewritten hg-buildpackage in Haskell in the meantime]
Daniel,
I completely understand where you're coming from on that. I *just*
did that, as a way to try out my new HSH system.
I was not entirely satisfied that I got everything quoted correctly in
the shell version (wrt filenames with spaces/other special chars), and
frankly didn't want to have to spend an inordinate amount of time
figuring out how to make sure it was right. So switching to a
language without the shell's trouble with undesired interpolation at
times was a win in my eyes.
Having said that, if you feel good enough with the shell to cast a
critical eye over it and fix those problems, I wouldn't have a problem
moving it back to a shell implementation. (Though at the same time, I
think that HSH makes most [though not all] of it fairly
straightforward)
Before you put a lot of time in it though, I'd like to hear your
thoughts on how you might see it working, both in the mq and the
non-mq cases.
-- John
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