From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] find command reloaded
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:02:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d01001230702t1daeb0ddqd619e09181d1a997@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001231016.aa87111@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
On 23 January 2010 11:16, John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> As I see it, there are three types of program:
> 1) Stuff only one person is ever likely to want. No worth
> contributing.
> 2) Stuff of interest only to a small group of people. This belongs
> in contrib.
> 3) Stuff of more general utility. This should probably go in the
> main tree unless there is a good reason not to put it there.
I believe that some version of 'find' and 'xargs' would easily find
its users and not just few.
Another problem with stuff in contrib is, that their software is not
well documented (i.e. no man pages), so that one probably has to read
the source in order to be able to use it. This often forms an obstacle
for usage... Being accepted to the main tree brings along good
documentation, too, which is of importance to me.
R
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-23 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-22 17:29 Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 17:36 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 17:44 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:15 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 18:20 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 18:59 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:40 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:52 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 17:41 ` maht
2010-01-22 18:00 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 17:44 ` Robert Raschke
2010-01-22 17:59 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:08 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-01-22 18:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-01-22 18:19 ` Joseph Xu
2010-01-22 18:26 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 18:29 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:42 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 19:00 ` geoff
2010-01-22 19:37 ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 19:45 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 20:16 ` Jason Catena
2010-01-22 20:26 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 20:23 ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 20:31 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 20:57 ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 20:38 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 21:07 ` Steve Simon
2010-01-22 21:18 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-22 21:11 ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 21:54 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 22:08 ` John Stalker
2010-01-23 6:04 ` lucio
2010-01-23 10:16 ` John Stalker
2010-01-23 15:02 ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2010-01-23 15:24 ` Steve Simon
2010-01-23 15:44 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-24 18:05 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-24 19:46 ` David Leimbach
2010-01-23 15:42 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-23 15:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-03 17:58 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-03 18:23 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-03 18:28 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-03 18:40 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:13 ` Jason Catena
2010-01-22 19:17 ` John Stalker
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