On 03/07/2011 05:05 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > * David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-03-08 00:03]: >> Dan Muresan: >>> ...the crusade against "bashisms" has broken so many scripts and wasted so >>> many man-hours for Debian / Ubuntu users. > > The hard work of many Debian maintainers fixing broken shell > scripts and pushing these changes upstream is certainly not > wasted time but a great service to other platforms as well by > improving portability. If you want bash or ksh scripts to work > why do you use dash? > >> Right. Many existing scripts depend on "==", not "=", and its implementation is trivial. > > That is a very weak argument as it applies to many such features, > the question is whether to create precendent here and where that'll > go. Personally, I _don't_ want to see this in dash _until_ the Austin Group makes their ruling on the pending discussion item of whether the next version of POSIX will be requiring support for '=='. But if the Austin Group ultimately requires it, then we've proven that it's very easy to add to dash at that time. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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