[ITP] bashdb, bash_completion

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Tue Oct 26 20:14:00 GMT 2004


Max Bowsher schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>> I read your email.  I guess my mind boggled at the concept that anyone
>>> would be so..., er, bold as to assume that they could trump someone 
>>> else's
>>> package by using the name "bash.exe" when there is already an extremely
>>> well-known package which uses that name.
>>>
>>> As I said.  Work this out with Ronald.
>>>
>>> And please don't send any more "ITPs" which wipe out other parts of
>>> people's packages.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> The current setup.exe infrastructure doesn't provide for elegant 
> handling of multiple packages providing the same file. The name 
> "/bin/bash.exe" belongs to the bash package. It is therefore NOT 
> available for a bashdb package to use. End of story.

Ok, I reject hereby my bash-2.50b-rebash and bashdb proposal.
Technical arguments are always the golden hammer.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/



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