Packaging .py files

[Bartosz Taudul]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:30:40AM +0200, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> It's not a reliable system when any application can fail because it either 
> expects something that all of the other distros, except us, have (sh -> bash) 
Yes, condoning bad code practices is the way to go. Go install your
ubuntu.

> or we've done something to it without having much clue about original 
> developers' reasons for a particular choice (ripping out internal versions of 
> various libs).
Half the time the original developers "don't have a clue", so your
argument fails.

> (python -- I'm 
> quite sure it's authors never meant for it to be distributed the way we do) 
The more I know about python the more I am assured it's a joke language.

> The only part where we actually prefer not to have bash is where our own (made 
You and who else?

> in-house) scripts are concerned. All other scripts should be run with what 
> their authors expected, and that's bash (the Have It Just Work rule). The 
Bullshit. The scripts that expect bash have "#!/bin/bash" in header, not
"#!/bin/sh".

wolf
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