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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: port that's just a shell script? (idnits)
To:
Florian Obser <florian@openbsd.org>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:10:03 +0100

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Ugh, I've just looked at the script, have they not heard of perl?!

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  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 23 October 2024 13:08:04 Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> We usually go for a full path to the interpreter rather than env and 
> relying on the user's PATH including /usr/local/bin
>
> --
> Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
>
>
> On 23 October 2024 12:01:12 Florian Obser <florian@openbsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> so I'm writing IETF drafts now.
>>
>> Please stop laughing.
>>
>> We already have xml2rfc. I'll poke at kramdown-rfc2629 (ruby) next,
>> because I'm not going to write raw xml...
>>
>> Another thing I'd like to have is idnits
>> https://github.com/ietf-tools/idnits/tree/v2
>>
>> Which is just a bash script, and yes, it's bash.
>> So it would need a rundep on shells/bash and a slap with sed:
>> 's,/bin/bash,/usr/bin/env bash,'
>>
>> Is there an example for such a port or is that just silly?
>>
>> v3 is a rewrite in JavaScript for some bizarre reason, so that's going
>> to be fun.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Florian
>>
>> --
>> In my defence, I have been left unsupervised.