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From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The fallacies of GLEP55
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 20:01:15
Message-Id: 4A0F1B69.3080301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The fallacies of GLEP55 by David Leverton
1 David Leverton wrote:
2 > For comparson, another alternative that some people have suggested is putting
3 > it in a specially formatted comment. This avoids the issue I mentioned
4 > because bash doesn't try to parse those at all, so the only rules are those
5 > that specify what format the comment should be in. On the other hand, this
6 > isn't backwards compatible with current package managers.
7
8 Actually, I prefer the out-of-band approach, as well. She-bangs are
9 pretty standard in Linux/Unix (for example). But either out-of-band or
10 restricted in-band solutions are preferable to filename extension hacks.
11
12 -Joe

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The fallacies of GLEP55 Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o>