How hard would it be to BORG the fixproto stuff?
Bruce Korb
bkorb@pacbell.net
Fri May 18 18:22:00 GMT 2001
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> You are suggesting merging fixincludes and fixproto, yes/no?
Exactly.
> I think the idea is sound, but I would rather see the shell script
> components of both programs properly converted to C first. Yeah, it's
> more work, but we've had it demonstrated over and over that shell
> scripts are unportable and fragile compared to C.
Enough more work that I cannot see it happening. :-(
That is why I suggested just wholesale dumping the shell
code into the program. *Then* worry about reworking functionality.
Keep the project simple, it stays doable and it gets done,
albeit slowly.
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