On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:11:09PM +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:27:14PM -0500, Chris Down wrote: > > On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > > Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea! > > > > In my opinion others already got close enough for us not to worry (rc, > > mksh, undoubtedly others). We had some discussion about whether we would > > have a shell included with sbase, but I think the consensus (or at > > least, what David said) was that we weren't going to use one in the end. > > I second that. In my opinion it is worth to consider to think about a > suckless shell, but that is definitely a beast which does not belong in > sbase but would need to be a project on its own.
I think mksh fills the gap nicely here. We already have some hardcore tools in the TODO that need to be done (awk, sed, etc.) writing and maintaining a shell is too much effort for the current manpower. Thanks, sin
