Re: [dev] suckless shared tools

From: Marc Collin <marc.collin7_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:53:48 -0300

I did a one-liner that finds every file named "arg.h", extract their
last modified date, get the "arg.h" that was last modified, and
replace all "arg.h" with this latest version (arg.h from the project
that last updated it). This one-line can be run by who has access to
all repositories on git.suckless.org. Just run it on the root
directory and all projects will receive the latest "arg.h". The bad
side of this? It's manual. Every time any "arg.h" is updated, you'll
have to run the one-liner. Maybe someone has a better idea? Why is no
project currently using libsl? Is it because it comes with other stuff
besides arg.h and that's usually useless for many projects?

Anyway here's the one-liner I described above.

find ./ -name "arg.h" -exec cp `find ./ -name "arg.h" | xargs stat |
grep -e File -e Modify | cut -c 9-27 | tr '\n' ' ' | sed
's/\.\//\n.\//g' | sed '1d' | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 " " $1}' | sort |
tail -n 1 | cut -c 21-` {} \;



On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Charlie Kester <corky1951_AT_comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat 27 Feb 2016 at 12:14:47 PST Marc Collin wrote:
>>
>> So the idea is to send patches to all arg.h files on different
>> suckless projects when one of them is modified?
>> Wouldn't it be easier to have a more centralized arg.h (and similar
>> tools)?
>> I'm not complaining, I just want to understand the idea you guys have.
>> I noticed there's libsl on git.suckless.org that attempts to unite
>> suckless files many suckless projects use at the same place but it
>> seems this didn't take off.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 03:56:25PM -0300, Marc Collin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> A few days ago arg.h was update on sbase to fix an out-of bounds error.
>>>> After that the same error was fixed (some sooner some later) on lots
>>>> of other projects that also have arg.h like ubase, slock, dmenu, st,
>>>> and others. And many tools that use arg.h are still not fixed. Isn't
>>>> this bad for maintenance? Couldn't projects import arg.h and similar
>>>> tools from another repository and then only 1 place have to be fixed
>>>> to everyone benefit? Or a script that can be run to automatically sync
>>>> all arg.h on git.suckless.org with the master version?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Send patches.
>>>
>
> Send patches to make those many projects get arg.h from libsl?
>
Received on Sun Feb 28 2016 - 00:53:48 CET