Re: Shell-independent *nix setup script

2008-05-23 Thread scott . hafeman
On May 22, 5:29 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it worthwhile maintaining a production application setup script in > > Python as opposed to shell-script?   > > I do not think so. Perhaps 'in conjunction with', but not 'opposed > to'... sh is the lowest

Re: Shell-independent *nix setup script

2008-05-22 Thread brad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it worthwhile maintaining a production application setup script in Python as opposed to shell-script? I do not think so. Perhaps 'in conjunction with', but not 'opposed to'... sh is the lowest common denominator of shells. Script for sh and your script will r

Shell-independent *nix setup script

2008-05-22 Thread scott . hafeman
Hi, Is it worthwhile maintaining a production application setup script in Python as opposed to shell-script? The main goal of this setup script is to sniff a user's environment and export environment variables to the calling (parent) process. Either way, some file would need to be sourced into the