| 1 |
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Steve Long wrote: |
| 2 |
> Roy Marples wrote: |
| 3 |
> > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 17:25 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
| 4 |
> >> People who parse xml with sed make me cry. |
| 5 |
> >> |
| 6 |
> >> grep = also bad. |
| 7 |
> > |
| 8 |
> > Where do you stand on awk | head | cut | tail | xargs chains? |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> Just awk will do all that, Roy ;) |
| 11 |
> |
| 12 |
> It's a shame xmlGawk got punted, it was the best project of its ilk imnsho. |
| 13 |
> That other project[1] was deader than a dodo, vapier ;P |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
that "other project" was started by the xmlGawk author as the replacement of |
| 16 |
xmlGawk ... i know because we talked about it via e-mail :P |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
i'm not going to make a core package dependent on an external patchset again |
| 19 |
let alone one that requires linking against cruft in /usr ... it was a pima |
| 20 |
-mike |
Archives