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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:17:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbfc82860701290517p739c78a1td05fd0900e280515@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fy9udmf6.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On 1/29/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> Nikolai> We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?
>
> OK, sorry for raising the flag.  I just know that writing portable shell
> is far trickier than writing portable Perl, so I get overly cautious
> on anything that wasn't in Unix V7.

No problem; I wasn't sure on the current requirements myself :-).
It's too bad that not all the great stuff one can find in Bash and Zsh
were in the original...

  nikolai

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-29 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29  8:09 [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-29  8:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-29  9:18   ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-29  9:28     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-29 11:41 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-01-29 12:38   ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-01-29 12:53     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-01-29 13:17       ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2007-01-29 13:21         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-01-30 10:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-29 12:43   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-29 12:54     ` Randal L. Schwartz

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