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From: Alec Warner <antarus@×××××××××××.com> |
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Date: Nov 2, 2007 10:25 PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags |
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To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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On 11/2/07, Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:17 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> > On Friday 02 November 2007 17:52:13 Roy Marples wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:30 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> > > > Please explain why you hijack this thread to discuss POSIX vs. bash when |
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> > > > it's supposed to be about the API for ebuilds. |
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> > > I dislike the gratuitous use of bash for no good reason - and in the |
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> > > code he gave there is no good reason for using bashisms. |
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> > So your approach to getting it your way is to hijack every thread that shows |
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> > use of bashisms until people start using your inferior workarounds? |
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> I don't see them as inferior. |
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> I see them as more portable and less confusing. |
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> Of course you are welcome to compare the code in question and state |
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> which is inferior and why it is so. |
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> Thanks |
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> Roy |
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I think Roy's comments about POSIX shell are appropriate in that it is |
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his goal to see POSIX shell used within Gentoo and it is important to |
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that goal to point out where one can use POSIX shell instead of bash. |
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That being said; as far as I'm aware the reference implementation |
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provided by hkbst is in relation to portage (since it was already |
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discussed on the gentoo-dev-portage list). Since portage currently |
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uses bash and to my knowledge is not moving to POSIX shell in the near |
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term, I think bash is appropriate in the implementation. AKA, |
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everyone stop arguing about which is better. |
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-Alec |
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