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Re: A beta? 2.52e?
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: A beta? 2.52e? |
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25 Oct 2001 12:12:48 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
Paul> But there are probably other problems with that code too.
I understand your point, but I really regret we reject this instead of
finding all the impacts and trying to circumvent them. I might be
wrong, but I think the general idea, rewriting/extracting from itself,
is useful and could have other applications.
It was a good test bed for this scheme.
Paul> I think we can now remove the "awk <$as_myself" part of
Paul> Autoconf, and that nobody would notice it if we did remove it.
Paul> That issue is no longer worth worrying about in practice, now
Paul> that the code runs a POSIX shell on 99.999% of platforms.
I understand your point, and I'm sensitive to your intuition. If you
think it will break, let's remove it. Please, do.