From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:11:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?
Message-ID: <7vir7xozxs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <857iodxyrc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> ... For autoconf, it is fine to call sed (and you would probably not
> believe how small the portable language subset for sed is) all the
> time.  Performance is not an issue.  For normal user commands, this is
> different.

Wow, you made me recall a painful past for myself.  AIX's sed
was so bad that I had to send in a few bugfixes to autoconf to
work it around.  I do not know if I should feel happy to find
somebody to commiserate with...