Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:57:47 -0600
> Eric Zylstra <ezylstra@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Proposing such a huge project without the ability to do it? I may
> > have been a little disrespectful, but not the first one in the
> > thread. And my point wasn't to be disrespectful, but to point out
> > that most proposals unaccompanied by code and that don't solve
> > obvious problems don't seem to be received very well. Apologies if
> > that wasn't within bounds.
>
> What if the OP had instead of the suggestion submitted two or three Lua
> scripts to replace two or three Perl scripts? Would you still have the
> same opinion?
We would definately have been impressed by his replacement of the
existing pkg tools, which as written today are around 23,000 lines of
perl.
But should we really bother debating "what if"?
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