On Thursday, 04 August 2005, at 15:24:34 (-0400), seth vidal wrote: > > rpm -qa | grep ^perl- | xargs rpm -ql | xargs grep -l ^#!/usr/bin/perl | xargs > > perl -c > > yes. And it's prone to breaking. Bullshit. The semantics of "rpm -qa" haven't changed in ages, and if you're aware of some magical transformation of grep and/or xargs syntax in the past decade, I'd love to know about it. > Handing back data structures against known modules is less likely to > fall apart. Or handing back XML or some other well-defined structured format. > And it would be a bear to maintain simply so we could be locked down > to that format, forever. No thank you. skvidal, meet XML. XML, this is skvidal. > It's a question of ease of programming. C is unfun to write in and > to deal with all the memory issues. Python is easy to write in and > the yum modules aren't hard to use. Your bigotry is showing here, Seth. C is anything but unfun. (You see, some people actually like a challenge.) And Python is not easy for everyone to write in. > Seriously, if you think going down the path to program in python in > order to produce a scriptable interface to yum - just write the > program you're after in python using the yum modules. Not everyone likes Python or wants to write Python. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird." -- Tori Amos, "Crucify"
