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Re: texi2dvi: set -e, use tar


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: texi2dvi: set -e, use tar
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:38:51 +0100
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>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

 > It strikes me that we should reimplement texi2dvi as a C program.
 > Beyond certain level of complexity (which IMHO texi2dvi passed way
 > back), there's no reasons to continue to stick to a shell script.

I disagree, C is about the worse language to implement texi2dvi (well,
what is it actual good for?).  Choose Perl, Python, Ruby and I'm your
man.  Using a compiled language to coordinate programs would be a big
error.





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