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

From: Evan Gates <evan.gates_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:03:21 -0700

Alex Pilon <alp_AT_alexpilon.ca> wrote:

> > > 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.

Almost all scripts you run into in the wild are crap. If sbase doesn't
supply what that crap uses, no one will use it. There are many of these
non standard tools that people rely on, seq is another.
Received on Thu Oct 12 2017 - 20:03:21 CEST

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