[Gllug] Roll your own

Jackson, Harry HJackson at colt-telecom.com
Tue Oct 30 16:40:36 UTC 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Coggins [mailto:tc at sonicated.com]
> On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 15:48, will wrote:
> 
> > We should make pico the only text editor by default.
> > 
> > and use lots of perl :-)
> > 
> > Will.
> 
> Good idea! But to change it slightly could we make vi the only text
> editor by default and use lots of Ruby? 
> 
> See why only %0.00001 would be coding:)

You could set up a rule base for acceptance.

Like the following

Does it appear in > 50% of *nix flavours.
Does it have any serious security issues.
etc
ewc

Then if five pass you pick the two most common.

Just an Idea
Harry (above are only examples)


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