Re: Question about adding a tiny tool into GNU coreutils

[Jim Meyering]

Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>> I think it would rather fit into the coreutils than having it's own
>>> distribution package. What do you think? (Source attached)
>> ...
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but it seems better to
>> do that with some shell and perl:
>
> regardless if it's written in C, shell+perl or any other language,
> it's still the same question IMHO: should it go into coreutils?
>
> +1 from me (for the C alternative, no deps to shell/perl etc.).

Sorry, but this is a developer tool, and it's fine
to assume shell and perl for such tools.
Not to mention the fact that maintaining what is effectively
a one-line shell script beats maintaining 100+-lines of C hands down.

I'm all for adding such small scripts to a contrib/ directory.
... just waiting for someone motivated enough to handle all of
the tedious details.