Re: why lines of hooks?

%% kfogel@collab.net writes:

  k> We don't even need to insist that they be shell scripts, they'll just
  k> be programs that are passed certain arguments in a certain order.

You might want to avoid depending on particular ordering. In my
experience, this can make upgrades more painful than necessary.

Passing arguments as command line options (e.g. use "-flag1 value1
-flag2 value2" instead of order-specific "value1 value2") is quite a bit
more flexible, since you can add more options and even remove obsolete
ones, and old scripts will continue to work (unless they used the
removed option of course).

Also consider using the environment... that's very flexible as well and
if you have lots of constant data it can save some work (you can have
one function that sets the environment properly, then invokes the
command).

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