On Monday, July 11, 2011 20:38:49 William Hubbs wrote: > this bug was filed against OpenRc today [1]. The issue was that the user > was attempting to use bash arrays, which, as far as I knew are not > supported in OpenRc.
they've been supported to ease migration from existing configs. > bash arrays are not documented anywhere as far as OpenRc is concerned. yes, but very little has been historically documented in openrc, so i wouldnt take that as a suggestion of intent. > Also, this is not a posix feature, so supporting it technically goes against > OpenRc's design. i dont think this logic follows. openrc's design is to be usable on top of POSIX shells, but not as a requirement. if you search the mailing list archives, i recall Roy having a thread on the topic of bash arrays. > I guess what I'm trying to figure out is, what is the technical > advantage for bash arrays as compared to using strings the way things > are shown in net.example? > > If there isn't one, would there be a lot of objections to me removing > this code? i dont think we've had openrc in stable long enough to force people to migrate. so i'd keep the code putting along for now, and add a note to the feature removal schedule only after we have checks in the openrc ebuild that to catch upgrade paths (and perhaps even do the migration for users). -mike
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