External lib unittests: they're killin me!

[Dmitry Olshansky]

23-May-2013 01:51, H. S. Teoh пишет:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 08:56:13PM +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-05-21 20:34, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>>> Ugh, yea, that's right. I love the unix shell, but I'm convinced that
>>> having the shell expand globs was a colossal mistake.
>>
>> I think it's mostly very handy.
> [...]
>
> I'm a total unix shell geek (my X11 environment is basically a glorified
> terminal, no window decorations, everything is maximized, no mouse
> dependence, etc.), but I have to agree that having the shell expand
> globs was a mistake.
>
> The *reasoning* behind it was NOT a mistake: you want a standard syntax
> for wildcards across the board, that users can rely on, instead of cp
> taking one syntax, mv another syntax, and ls yet another syntax. (One
> example of this latter is the sheer number of regex variations on a
> typical unix installation, many of which are mutually incompatible, or
> compatible but with subtle variations that nobody can remember.  It's an
> embarrassment!)
>
> The *chosen solution*, though, was mistake. The correct solution was to
> have a globbing function in a standard library that programs would use
> to expand wildcards.

Windows had it in WinAPI - FindFirst/FindNext. Programmers basically had 
it yet it didn't mean they used it even half-consistently (nor it was 
complete glob pattern).


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Dmitry Olshansky