/bin/date and coreutils

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-05-10 23:19:50 +0200, Jochen Küpper wrote:
> On 10.05.2007, at 16:25, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
>> I think that it is a better idea to use Perl instead of shell scripts if 
>> you want portable scripts.
>
> or Python (my personal favorite;), or ...

I've seen many problems after Python upgrades under Debian (e.g.
things that no longer work, probably because incompatibilities
between versions)... And Python isn't installed everywhere.

> Anyhow, what's happening during an perl (python, ...) update?

The system version is used, and this is not necessarily a problem,
except if some modules only present in MacPorts are used.

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