On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:52:34PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
>
> Do you think you can provide any guarantees that the subset of /bin/sh
> features common to all current instances of /bin/sh is adequate to
> build a moderately demanding open source package?
>
Yes. This is what is done by the R.I.S.K. framework used for building
KerGIS and kerTeX. The minimal being a subset of POSIX.2 for the tools,
since it is trivial to provide such subset for whatever environment (APE
on Plan9; this is what does Mingw for Windows; Cygwin is the overloaded
version; R.I.S.K. will probably provide one in the future).
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