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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:51:31
Message-Id: 20070206203430.26cfd784@uberpc.marples.name
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash by Seemant Kulleen
1 On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:18:43 -0500
2 Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Forgive me if this is just noise, but I just wanted to say I agree
5 > fully with ferdy. As I was reading Roy's email, and I looked at the
6 > net config sample he had in there, I thought "well, what's actually
7 > wrong with this?"
8
9 Cannot be parsed by shells other than bash or zsh
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11
12 > Keeping it as is has the advantage that an
13 > upgrade/downgrade cycle wouldn't change much in functionality based on
14 > config, which is pretty good (ie, backwards compatibility). In this
15 > case, I'm not sure legacy is all that bad, simply because it's
16 > expressive and concise and easily understood :)
17
18 So you're saying we patch other shells to support bash arrays?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash Olivier Crete <tester@g.o>