On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM Dan <d...@nnnne-o-o-o.com> wrote: > > > > Apparently, you mean: > > https://github.com/par7133/pdftexter/blob/main/pdftexter > > Yes it is that one, and be sure I am not going to hide it or delete > in a while. > > I want to thank you for all the time spent in writing to me, hopefully > time spent well for yourself, auditing my script. And.. don't worry I > will check all your points trying to improve my software effort, I > remain optimist. > > About the licensing matter that is point most interesting among all what > what you wrote, I have to be sincere with you, seen your > behaviour in the present, past and most probably in the near future > (also against other software efforts of mine like RADXIDE) I am > not worry much to be part of your ports any more, remain assured > of it. Certainly, having your consideration against my effort could be > a nice honorificence but, frankly, you can continue to takle your own > reputation that is a no-wish actually for my own collaborative doing.
I have absolutely no idea how to parse the last paragraph, but I wanted to chime in on the side of Ingo — take his advice because it's spot on. My only two cents would be that checking if a program is installed at runtime could make sense in a single-script type of tool because there is a larger risk of someone (future you perhaps) copying the script over to a different machine, forgetting about the prerequisites, and then be disappointed after waiting 5 minutes for the tool to do something and then spit out "oops, couldn't find tool XYZ". Easier to check first (but check correctly...)
