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Bug#559761: ITP: distro-release-info -- provides information about the distributions' releases



Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 01:03 +0100 schrieb Daniel Baumann:
> Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Is it really a low-level tool? Which languages are allowed in your eyes
> > and is a functional programming language among them?
> 
> anything that's included in the debian essential toolchain, currently 
> being c, c++ and shell.

The Python implementation is 150 lines long. Rewriting everything in C
or C++ will lead to 300 till 1000 lines of code. Only using the shell
does not make it better.

> > E.g. distro-release-info can be used in
> > your pbuilder config file.
> 
> not without forcing me to install python too, which given the little 
> task what release-info is doing, is really overkill.

You do not have python installed? There will be a trade off: Either the
tool uses a (over-killing) programming language or a simple programming
language will convert this little task into a complex program.

You are welcome to help me rewriting these little scripts in C (C++
would be an overkill, eh?), but I do not think that it's worth the
effort.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)

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