Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 181447
Include scriptreplay
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:24 EST
Description of problem: There's this perl script written by a debian maintainer that replays typescript and timing data gathered by script(1). Would be nice to include it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.12p-9.13
Please, include the script to our bugzilla as attachment. Thanks.
Seems like it has been accepted upstream. It is in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/util-linux-2.12r.tar.bz2 for example, under misc-utils/scriptreplay.
Ah, sorry. I know this script :-) The problem is that it's perl script and I think we don't want to create dependence on Perl for basic packages (like util-linux). Sorry. WONTFIX.
Makes sense. I'll try to rewrite it in C :)
Forgive me for saying it, but C rewrites aside, I don't believe this is the right resolution. The tiny minority of folks who decide not to install Perl (and I'm struggling to imagine why they wouldn't - do you know of anyone like this?) are extremely unlikely to care if they're missing this replay functionality. OTOH, there's a much bigger chance that some folks who do have Perl would like this functionality but are being deprived of it just because of a technicality regarding dependencies. I notice with interest that SUSE 10.0 has included scriptreplay and even quite happily introduced a dependency on Perl from util-linux. Just my opinion, anyhow.
For what it's worth, I've got the functionality added to script(1) itself as a commandline argument. I will submit it here and then upstream after cleaning it up a bit.
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