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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration
From: |
Aaron Bentley |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration |
Date: |
06 Feb 2004 10:28:36 -0500 |
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 16:22, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I wish we I could do
> >> tla get http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/address@hidden/emacs--cvs-trunk--0
>
> > This functionality already exists. Anybody has the option of defining a
> > grab file of the format:
>
> Well, the whole point of my request is that it should be easy to make it
> work without adding any extra special file somewhere. I know I can easily
> get the same result using grab or build-config or aba or even a home-grown
> script, but the question "why can't I do it more simply" ?
>
> Are there technical or philosophical reasons why it's considered
> a bad thing?
Well, I do have a philosophical objection. It's not a strong one, but
here it is: tla is a C program, which makes it very performant for some
kinds of operations. But it's not a particularly fast language to write
in.
I'm a fan of mixed language development, and I don't see any reason why
get-from-url should be written in C, when it could be written more
easily in a scripting language. It makes sense to me to write the inner
layers in C, and write the outer layers in something else. (Though I'd
prefer if it wasn't shell scripting.) I think that's a better use of
people's time.
Aaron
--
Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
PanoMetrics, Inc.
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Miles Bader, 2004/02/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Tom Lord, 2004/02/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Brian May, 2004/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Aaron Bentley, 2004/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Robert Collins, 2004/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Brian May, 2004/02/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Stefan Monnier, 2004/02/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Miles Bader, 2004/02/05
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration,
Aaron Bentley <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Miles Bader, 2004/02/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Tom Lord, 2004/02/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Auto-registration, Stefan Monnier, 2004/02/06