Re: [hackers] [sbase] [PATCH] which: absolute path not handled

From: Alex Pilon <alp_AT_alexpilon.ca>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:03:40 -0400

> > On 2017-10-10-17, Evan Gates <evan.gates_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I dislike that which(1) is even part of sbase as it's not POSIX. The
> > > sh builtin 'command' can and should be used in its place as it is
> > > standardized.
> >
> On 10/12/17, Michael Forney <mforney_AT_mforney.org> wrote:
> > I'm fine removing it assuming there isn't a huge amount of scripts out
> > there that depend on it.
>
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 04:39:02PM +0200, isabella parakiss wrote:
> https://github.com/search?l=Shell&q=which&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
>
> Showing 2,155,004 available code results

Is there practical value for this project though to support such broken code?
Are sbase users going to use that code?

I have to say, the first result lists a page of clearly crappy code on GitHub.
Truly a mecca of `git`tish code. And I know you guys hate Node and Bash.
Received on Thu Oct 12 2017 - 18:03:40 CEST

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