Re: [RFC PATCH 02/28] cli: Add LIL shell

Tom Rini
2021-07-06T14:54:35Z

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On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 09:46:43AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Sean,
>
> In message <e7e23702-4e55-f785-c77f-2d3076fdd67b@gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > >>> foo() { proc foo {first second} {
> > >>> echo $1 $2 echo $first $second
> > >>> } }
> >
> > This is not possible. We only have eval (run) as of today. I view adding
> > functions as one of the most important usability improvements we can
> > make.
>
> Again: this is not an issue with hush as is, but only with our
> resource-limited port of a nearly 20 year old version of it.
>
> Updating to a current version would fix this, in an almost 100%
> backward compatible way.

Let us cut to the chase then. Who is going to port a modern version of
hush over to U-Boot, and maintain it? If we fork and forget again,
we'll be in a bad place once again in 2-3 years.

--
Tom

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