From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow == as synonym for = in test
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:03:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D75723F.3030207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110308000557.GC5987@wopr.local.invalid>
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On 03/07/2011 05:05 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> * 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.
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 '=='. But if the Austin
Group ultimately requires it, then we've proven that it's very easy to
add to dash at that time.
--
Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 0:03 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
2011-03-08 0:03 ` Eric Blake [this message]
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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