From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Tamm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:23:27 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20021201020409.GA17736@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038709354 30425 80.91.224.249 (1 Dec 2002 02:22:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 02:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IJke-0007uW-00 for ; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 03:22:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18IJsy-0001c8-00 for ; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 03:31:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18IJm6-0006jF-00; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18IJlc-0006Jq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:23:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18IJla-0006Jf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from a17-250-248-89.apple.com ([17.250.248.89] helo=smtpout.mac.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18IJla-0006Jb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:23:30 -0500 Original-Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.2/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id gB12NSTw003122 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:23:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from mac.com ([12.236.43.16]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H6F5B400.C0G for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:23:28 -0800 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20021201020409.GA17736@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9774 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9774 > >> As another aside, I think the make-package script should eventually be >> rewritten in perl because of the guarantee that it exists on Mac OS X. >> Any objections. > > You mean script that currently uses /bin/sh? > > I really don't think /bin/sh is going to go away... Oh that's not what I meant at all, but it is what I wrote. I think the script would be easier to maintain in perl than in /bin/sh. This is only interesting because Perl is guaranteed to be on the system (unlike most *nix flavours). -Steven