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On 18.12.2011 19:13, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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> On 12/18/11 6:02 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>> There are parallel computing aspects in libbash for metadata generation, |
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>> data structures in AST building for bash and it's quite low level. |
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> By the way, I've always wondered why libbash is separate from the |
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> "upstream" bash. |
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> Have you considered contributing to the upstream bash to convert the |
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> shell itself to a more library-oriented design (somewhat similar to |
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> LLVM), so that you have a guarantee that the lib and the shell stay in sync? |
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The main reason is that Portage is GPL-2 and bash upstream is GPL-3. |
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Unless someone is willing to do the work to get Portage to GPL-3 or FSF |
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to get bash GPL-2 then those two will not mix. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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