On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <fp...@klabs.be> wrote: > Hi all, > > Do April Fools' Day occur in November in some part of the world? > > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 21:01 +0100, Maximilian Gass wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> >> * Package name : envstore >> Version : 2.0 >> Upstream Author : Daniel Friesel <d...@derf.homelinux.org> >> * URL : https://derf.homelinux.org/~derf/projects/envstore/ >> * License : WTFPL > > WTF? > > Please Sam, drop your F* webpage. The [Open-Source] world don't need yet > another license. Or make it clear that no one should actually use it. FWIW, the WTFPL is accepted as compatible with the GPL by the Free Software Foundation:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses That is, at least version 2 of that license... > >> Description : save and restore environment variables >> >> envstore allows you to save environment variables into a seperate store, list >> them, and reload them into the shell again. > > In most situation, this packaged can be replaced with: > > echo $FOO > ~/.var_FOO > then > FOO=$(cat ~/.var_FOO) > > In some exceptional situation, where the variable variables and escape > code should be preserved, one can use: > export | grep " PS4=" > ~/.var_FOO > then > . ~/.var_FOO > > (No, it isn't guaranteed to be portable, and there might even be easier > ways to achieve all this). > > I wonder how Unix could survive 30 years without such command. > > Franklin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
