Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Dan Douglas <ormaaj@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 07:00:18
Message-Id: CADVxHgPV8nomTWcrHQvUfQpW0h5VRX0HEkA-zfpYAAhdedUV-g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.4 - call for testers by William Hubbs
1 > I am against it as well. The purpose of this testing is to eventually
2 > move to bash-4.4 being stable and replacing bash-4.3, so slotting it
3 > would make that more complex later.
4
5 Only true for users that have no interest in testing. Irrelevant for
6 anyone that needs to test for backwards compatibility or cross-platform
7 support in scripts. That's the only reason to support multiple slots
8 of this in the first place. It doesn't imply one should substitute old
9 versions for their system shell.