RE: How to submit my utility for inclusion in coreutils?

[Quiroz, Hector]

Thanks for your reply.
I will write it in c then I will ask again.
Thanks



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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 1:59 PM
To: Quiroz, Hector; address@hidden
Subject: Re: How to submit my utility for inclusion in coreutils?

On 09/01/2017 10:27 AM, Quiroz, Hector wrote:
> Hello,
> I wrote a Perl script that I believe is unique, beneficial and so very cool 
> to Linux CLI users.

You didn't describe WHAT the utility does, which makes it hard to judge whether 
it belongs in coreutils or some other package.

Can it be rewritten in C or must it remain a perl script?  We don't have any 
perl scripts in coreutils, and it's probably not a good idea to require perl 
for something as low-level as coreutils.

Is it truly Linux-specific?  If so, you're probably better off proposing it for 
inclusion in util-linux, 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/.

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