From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow == as synonym for = in test Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:03:11 -0700 Message-ID: <4D75723F.3030207@redhat.com> References: <20110306234845.GC18385@elie> <20110307103457.GA5987@wopr.local.invalid> <20110307220048.GE15732@elie> <20110308000557.GC5987@wopr.local.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigECC49B07BE6D4964A9A89A88" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56305 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756800Ab1CHADQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:03:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110308000557.GC5987@wopr.local.invalid> Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: "David A. Wheeler" , dash@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigECC49B07BE6D4964A9A89A88 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/07/2011 05:05 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > * David A. Wheeler [2011-03-08 00:03]: >> Dan Muresan: >>> ...the crusade against "bashisms" has broken so many scripts and wast= ed so >>> many man-hours for Debian / Ubuntu users. >=20 > The hard work of many Debian maintainers fixing broken shell > scripts and pushing these changes upstream is certainly not > wasted time but a great service to other platforms as well by > improving portability. If you want bash or ksh scripts to work > why do you use dash? >=20 >> Right. Many existing scripts depend on "=3D=3D", not "=3D", and its i= mplementation is trivial. >=20 > That is a very weak argument as it applies to many such features, > the question is whether to create precendent here and where that'll > go. Personally, I _don't_ want to see this in dash _until_ the Austin Group makes their ruling on the pending discussion item of whether the next version of POSIX will be requiring support for '=3D=3D'. But if the Aust= in Group ultimately requires it, then we've proven that it's very easy to add to dash at that time. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enigECC49B07BE6D4964A9A89A88 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNdXI/AAoJEKeha0olJ0Nqr8gH/3qAK0QZmZjJqhnqRyY5HefI eR6b/Z9pKQsDKvoZ30ymC4hVDqGMvU5Pji7FmOSjy289XZ89L3XwEcCA79IVMpSc YYndpvIEdebSFk0owsKQpvIuxEO2WS9O8tQMYSoDfXO2o2tUdvH4aKE+YYsUq7hI OgZerQfTOWGKApxy4dJB76DTFBaMHu9v3lFXoV5gua2HcdGjaVDXqe3yflxAwMdO +ZIaZkiH1p1GGka1ZihldhrcsaWEtVGW3I3fLhAZWmSWhdGHxB9ku8ovAzq9jcEO tBP+JEFV6A+6NfqCa5GRKkC3mbgqVDFIoGRUqXdnlpbP6eYwjQiRiTvxMmxHl2g= =6jxf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigECC49B07BE6D4964A9A89A88--