[Koha-devel] »Command-line Utilities« vs. »Packaging« categories

[Barton Chittenden]

First, I'm a huge proponent of having a single place to look for command
line scripts... honestly, I wasn't aware of scripts outside of
./debian/command_line/, and I'm someone who actively looks for command line
scripts.

Would it be possible to make the scripts less dependent on being packaged?
My impression is that a lot of the reasons for the dependency is hard coded
paths, which probably aren't a good idea anyway... most of the scripts
explicitly run under bash, which allows setting default values of shell
variables, so it should be straightforward to set defaults which would
allow the scripts to be extended to allow other paths while still being
drop-in replacements for existing scripts.
On Jun 29, 2015 7:54 AM, "Tomas Cohen Arazi" <tomascohen at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> 2015-06-28 16:52 GMT-03:00 Mirko Tietgen <mirko at abunchofthings.net>:
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>> I have written two patches today which already existed. One, because
>> I misunderstood something, the other because I searched for a bug in
>> (and added my patch to) »packaging«, while the solution was in
>> »Command-line Utilities«.
>>
>> Apart from having learned to take sunday off instead of writing
>> redundant code, I wonder why we have these two categories which seem
>> to be confusing to everyone. Take a look and you will see what I
>> mean, there is a lot of koha-* scripts in both.
>>
>> Can we agree on having all command-line stuff used exclusively with
>> package installations in »packaging« in the future?
>>
>
> I agree, those are command-line scripts, that happen to be shipped with
> the packages for now, but separation should be done to aid reporting.
>
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