Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: <bug> shell scripts fail when /bin/sh <> /bin/bash

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 08:27:46AM +0200, Gour wrote:

> True. I was thinking in the sense of pre-requirement: "In order to use
> GNUmed you have to run Posix-compliant shell!"
Well, *that* isn't true and IMO would be a rather shameful
requirement. Windows doesn't even *have* a POSIX compliant
shell (not sure about cygwin). I am not sure about the
MacOSX shell.

It is only a few helper shell scripts which have bashisms in
them which I would rather either fix or explicitely make
them require bash (as they do now).

> Karsten> Python isn't really the right tool for the job. Perhaps for
> Karsten> some but surely not for all things we use shell scripts for.
> 
> I understand that it isn't being higher-level language.
> 
> However, rewriting shell scripts in Python would eliminate problem of
> 'shell-compatibility'.
Most of those shell scripts are platform specific anyways.
That's why they are shell scripts in the first place - they
automate steps one would do on the command line.

> So, if you don't mind I can try write some Python code and replace shell
> scripts

Sure, why not. Which one are you thinking about ? It'll make
a lot more sense for some than for others.

Some of the shell scripts we'll keep in any case, however,
such as gm-from-cvs.sh or /usr/bin/gnumed, because they
serve quite specific purposes for which the shell is the
appropriate level of abstraction.

Karsten
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