I hate gmail ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 2, 2007 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
On 11/2/07, Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:17 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Friday 02 November 2007 17:52:13 Roy Marples wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:30 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > > Please explain why you hijack this thread to discuss POSIX vs. bash when > > > > it's supposed to be about the API for ebuilds. > > > > > > I dislike the gratuitous use of bash for no good reason - and in the > > > code he gave there is no good reason for using bashisms. > > > > So your approach to getting it your way is to hijack every thread that shows > > use of bashisms until people start using your inferior workarounds? > > I don't see them as inferior. > I see them as more portable and less confusing. > > Of course you are welcome to compare the code in question and state > which is inferior and why it is so. > > Thanks > > Roy I think Roy's comments about POSIX shell are appropriate in that it is his goal to see POSIX shell used within Gentoo and it is important to that goal to point out where one can use POSIX shell instead of bash. That being said; as far as I'm aware the reference implementation provided by hkbst is in relation to portage (since it was already discussed on the gentoo-dev-portage list). Since portage currently uses bash and to my knowledge is not moving to POSIX shell in the near term, I think bash is appropriate in the implementation. AKA, everyone stop arguing about which is better. -Alec -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
