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Richard Yao posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:38:17 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> Would you (or someone else) elaborate on the specific features of bash |
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> that people find attractive? |
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For me (not a gentoo dev), in simplest terms it's just that I don't like |
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having to keep track of what's a bashism and what's POSIX. If individual |
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devs prefer POSIX code, they can certainly write ebuilds (or a 4th gentoo |
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package manager for that matter) in all POSIX, but there's enough devs |
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that for /whatever/ reason strongly prefer bash, where "strongly" is |
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ultimately defined as "if it's redefined to POSIX, there's a lot of other |
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projects I can spend my time on instead, that won't force me into jumping |
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thru those hoops", and that fact is widely enough known, that it's |
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unlikely in the extreme. |
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But to give you a example I've seen on this list (one of the few bits I |
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know isn't POSIX)... Many people appreciate the advantages of [[ tests, |
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looser quoting, ==/=~ pattern matching tests, etc. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |