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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

A million-line project spread over a hundred files

It's a script!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

sqlite is technically just one C source file, so that's definitely a script.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The compiled binary being another script.
Just in a different language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Being one source file is the definition of a script?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The definition of a script is something the computer executes (if it's a computer script, of course). Everything else people shove into it is extraneous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, so the bash script that I broke down into multiple files because I was unable to create and use functions properly, could not be considered a script?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Guess, I'll be bashing my way to completion.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

GNU Autotools: yes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

They hate to hear it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

In a sense it is, before it gets compiled. And yes I'm using the term loosely, please don't @ me people