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["M.L." <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>]

On Mercredi 26 Mars 2003 07:05, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Dufflebunk said:
> > Well, we have 0.5 behind us, and it's time to start looking forward
> > again. If we are going to continue saying that the distro is bash based,
> > we should start making it bash based. Right now only the package
> > management and installer are done in bash, and a package management
> > system does not a distro make.
> >
> > Perhaps we should be making the core parts of the distro in bash, init
> > for one. In addition, we need tools for modifying the system, runlevel
> > editors, X configuration, and hardware setup come to mind right now and
> > I'm sure there are many others.
> >
> > I suppose writing scripts in bash to duplicate functionality we already
> > have by using other apps is a little too far (ie wget replacement
> > written in bash). But it is something to think about to see how far we
> > can push things.
>
> Well, I think there's already an init.d editor called 'ntsys' or
> something, written in curses (and probably C, so it's not quite all the
> way BASH ;)).
>
> These are good ideas, especially the X configuration tool, perhaps one for
> installing fonts would be good.  Hopefully we pick up some more bashers to
> work on these.  :)
>

Right but is it really necessary to reinvent the weel in bash ?

I'm not part of the developer team, but I thinks being 100% bash based is not 
the main SMGL's goal. Then, it's not even the easyest way to do certain 
things, as you said.


Bye,
Mat.

> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle

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