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Re: Question about adding a tiny tool into GNU coreutils
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C de-Avillez |
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Re: Question about adding a tiny tool into GNU coreutils |
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Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:55:40 -0600 |
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On 01/07/10 15:36, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Does it really belong in coreutils installed on every computer in the
> known universe? I don't think my GNU toaster needs it. So I would
> vote against putting it in coreutils. It would be fine in a different
> project package however. This doesn't feel like a coreutils program.
> More like a dev-utils program.
>
Well, most of the times I am at a customer, I am working on their
production machines (or User Acceptance Testing, or QA), trying to fix
something on their environment -- and these as usually as far as
possible from dev tools. Sometimes I do get to do development, and then
I have the time to set it up, if needed.
Finding out an errno in production is as important as on development,
and they do happen. Making this a dev-utils thingie will very much
guarantee I will *never* see it in prod/QA/UAT.
So, yes, I think this would make sense to belong to coreutils (from my
own quite biased view, of course)
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