On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:46:29PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote to Cc git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > Hi, > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > > > Looks like *portable* shell programming is no fun :\ > > That is right. That's one of the reasons why I prefer moving scripts to > builtins: prototyping is good and well, but when you need to put it into > production, where people have all kinds of weird setups Right. > (just think of dash in Ubuntu!) Well, I'm using dash as /bin/sh in Debian. What's so weird about it? IIRC it allows POSIX + some Berkeley extensions and so it is far less weird as the least common demoninator of shell portability ;-) Hmm, For shell portability it'd be cool to have something like a "badsh" (bad shell) with the whole XCU Utilities as builtins without features and warnings if features want to be used that are not supported by at least 95% of the systems. So that scripts could be checked using badsh and then you know, that it is portable. I guess nobody ever wrote something like that. ;-) > Better to use something portable, such as C. Right. > So would you not agree that PATCH 2/3 is rather unnecessary? We wanted to make some upfront patches to am/rebase-i, so that, when the git-sequencer prototype swoops in, it's easier to see, what is taken from am and what is taken from rebase-i. But this seems to be not so easy, so I'm currently thinking that I skip that and concentrate on the builtin. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@xxxxxxx>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
