Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> However, I have a profound aversion to using a shell script >> for any task that I require to be executed in a robust manner. >> >> As such, my medium-term goal is to prototype a perl-based tool >> using IO:Compress that can do the job more efficiently and more >> robustly than bourne shell-based code can. > > Are you sure a runtime dependency of the gzip package on perl is worth > the trouble? > > In any case the coordination issue remains open. > > If your future perl-based tools are for gzip files only, like the > current ones, then I think it is better to rename them to gzdiff, etc.
IO::Compress is multi-format. > If your future perl-based tools are multi-format, then I think it is > better to package them independently of compressors. Meanwhile, I > think it is better to rename the current gzip-only scripts to gzdiff, > etc. > > What do you think? Let's see how things stand in a month or two.
