From: Guido Berhoerster <guido+kernel.org@berhoerster.name>
To: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow == as synonym for = in test
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 01:05:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110308000557.GC5987@wopr.local.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PwjSv-0004ZG-3B@fenris.runbox.com>
* David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> [2011-03-08 00:03]:
> Dan Muresan:
> > ...the crusade against "bashisms" has broken so many scripts and wasted so
> > many man-hours for Debian / Ubuntu users.
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?
> Right. Many existing scripts depend on "==", not "=", and its implementation is trivial.
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.
--
Guido Berhoerster
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 23:01 [PATCH] Allow == as synonym for = in test David A. Wheeler
2011-03-06 23:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-07 1:12 ` David A. Wheeler
2011-03-07 10:34 ` Guido Berhoerster
2011-03-07 14:55 ` David A. Wheeler
2011-03-07 17:18 ` Guido Berhoerster
2011-03-07 17:37 ` Dan Muresan
2011-03-07 22:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-07 23:03 ` David A. Wheeler
2011-03-08 0:05 ` Guido Berhoerster [this message]
2011-03-08 0:03 ` Eric Blake
2011-03-08 7:17 ` Dan Muresan
2011-03-08 15:27 ` Paul Smith
2011-03-08 15:53 ` Dan Muresan
2011-03-08 18:13 ` Guido Berhoerster
2011-03-08 18:43 ` Dan Muresan
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