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On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:13:42 +0100 |
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""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 12/18/11 6:02 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> > There are parallel computing aspects in libbash for metadata |
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> > generation, data structures in AST building for bash and it's quite |
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> > low level. |
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> By the way, I've always wondered why libbash is separate from the |
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> "upstream" bash. |
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> Have you considered contributing to the upstream bash to convert the |
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> shell itself to a more library-oriented design (somewhat similar to |
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> LLVM), so that you have a guarantee that the lib and the shell stay |
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> in sync? |
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I don't think upstream bash would be interested in converting bash into |
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C++. I wouldn't be interested in running such a bash, for instance. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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