On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:14:13AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> A non-working rebase would seem rather tough.
It depends on how you work. I for example always just push any change to a
linux machine where I do the actual integration work. Thus I don't need much
commands on the Solaris machine.
> The "issues" are with Solaris, apparently. There is always a price
> for portability. If Solaris users can fix their problems with a
> global search and replace of the first line in *.sh, the question is
> whether it is worth the hassle of having unreadable but "portable"
> code. After all, it has to be read also by humans.
Ok, but then we needed an infrastructure to replace the shell with a
configuration parameter.
> You are missing the line
> $ echo $0
> which is probably the most interesting one... we don't need to be
> compatible with everything having a "$ " prompt, just with everything
> called "/bin/sh".
Your way of telling people that you are considering everybody besides you to
be a moron is somehow insulting. You might wish to change that.
Sure I tested in on /bin/sh!
> See the rationale in my recently posted patch for implementing
> EDITOR/VISUAL support. One needs to shell-quote stuff properly, and
> the shell is better at shell-quote magic than C is.
Ok, will look up that later.
> If you prepare a patch replacing all existing ${parameter#word} uses
> and get it accepted, I will not push for inclusion of my cleanup.
>
> But you _really_ should go for it _now_.
I have it ready now. Just waiting for the answer of Junio to my last mail.
Robert
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