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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:29:19
Message-Id: b41005390711022226h23aa0034kcda0cb5a1873f1d1@mail.gmail.com
1 I hate gmail
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4 From: Alec Warner <antarus@×××××××××××.com>
5 Date: Nov 2, 2007 10:25 PM
6 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags
7 To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
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10 On 11/2/07, Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> wrote:
11 >
12 > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:17 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
13 > > On Friday 02 November 2007 17:52:13 Roy Marples wrote:
14 > > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:30 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
15 > > > > Please explain why you hijack this thread to discuss POSIX vs. bash when
16 > > > > it's supposed to be about the API for ebuilds.
17 > > >
18 > > > I dislike the gratuitous use of bash for no good reason - and in the
19 > > > code he gave there is no good reason for using bashisms.
20 > >
21 > > So your approach to getting it your way is to hijack every thread that shows
22 > > use of bashisms until people start using your inferior workarounds?
23 >
24 > I don't see them as inferior.
25 > I see them as more portable and less confusing.
26 >
27 > Of course you are welcome to compare the code in question and state
28 > which is inferior and why it is so.
29 >
30 > Thanks
31 >
32 > Roy
33
34 I think Roy's comments about POSIX shell are appropriate in that it is
35 his goal to see POSIX shell used within Gentoo and it is important to
36 that goal to point out where one can use POSIX shell instead of bash.
37 That being said; as far as I'm aware the reference implementation
38 provided by hkbst is in relation to portage (since it was already
39 discussed on the gentoo-dev-portage list). Since portage currently
40 uses bash and to my knowledge is not moving to POSIX shell in the near
41 term, I think bash is appropriate in the implementation. AKA,
42 everyone stop arguing about which is better.
43
44 -Alec
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Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>