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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 13:36 +0100, Steve Long wrote: |
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> ++ There's just too much nice stuff in BASH to drop down to sh to my mind. I |
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> for one would go right off Gentoo if i were forced to write ebuilds in sh. |
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I had this chat with Donnie last night and he pulled the molden ebuild |
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of the top of his head. |
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Attached is a patch to make it posix sh. Infact, most ebuilds themselves |
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would be that trivial. |
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So what's the "nice stuff" that's in use? Got any ebuild examples? |
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> I accept the argument for initscripts, since an embedded system is not |
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> likely to have bash. But for compile-time (which shouldn't happen on an |
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> embedded target) there simply isn't any real benefit to end-users that I |
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> can see. |
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The benefit is that our portage tree uses an accepted standardised |
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syntax. bash is just a standard to itself. |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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