[H-GEN] SMALL RPM PROBLEM

[Greg Black]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

| Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:
| 
| > In some cases, I build by hand from source because I'm a tester
| > for the software (e.g., bash);
| 
| You use bash?  Somehow I had you marked for a C Shell user.

Nope, I've never used csh (or any of its variants) either to
program in or as an interactive shell.  When I first started
using BSD systems (after years of being an AT&T customer), I
always edited the passwd file as my first step of an install to
change all instances of /bin/csh to /bin/sh; then I installed
bash and made that the shell for all normal users (a definition
that includes my login).

Rather than re-hash it here, I refer people to an excellent
article "Csh Programming Considered Harmful" by Tom Christiansen:

    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

| > [1] The Python people did make some incompatible changes in the
| >     syntax accepted by the parser
| 
| I'd be a little more horrified by those changes if Perl 6 wasn't
| starting to look like a *whole new and different language* rather than
| a (small or large) improvement on what went before.

I wasn't really bothered by the changes (which were, in reality,
quite minor), but I needed to be able to control when Python
upgrades happened, as some of my software was going to break
under the new Python.

Greg

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