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Re: More an autopackage
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Alexandre Oliva |
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Re: More an autopackage |
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18 Jan 2001 23:55:11 -0200 |
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On Jan 18, 2001, David Lee <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
>> 1) written in Python
> Wouldn't Perl5 be a more widely acceptable choice? Considerably so?
> (Indeed, isn't automake already in Perl? Why choose something different?
> Especially when that something is considerably less widely installed?)
Because Perl is almost unreadable and Python is a very nice language?
>> 6) When I get going with Actual Code (TM) (within a couple of weeks),
>> I'll setup a project on sourceforge for this.
> No promises. But I could try to have a quick look at Solaris pkgadd/pkgrm
> issues once you have got started.
One may find a lot about packaging for native systems in the Samba CVS
tree. See www.samba.org.
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Re: More an autopackage, Tom Tromey, 2001/01/18