On 13/07/2011 19:19, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 13:36:29 Ed W wrote: >> On 12/07/2011 16:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> baselayout-1 vs openrc isnt the issue. it's bash array support vs >>> flat strings. the former is supported in baselayout-1, and should be >>> supported in openrc. William is talking about dropping support from >>> openrc and i've laid out the way to get from here to there. >> >> The original vision for OpenRC was that it should be posix compliant. >> Please don't revert to using bash features because it creates a >> dependency on bash that then makes it hard to support "small" platforms >> such as busybox > > please read the thread (again?). no one is talking about requiring bash. > -mike
Fair enough. I misunderstood "we should support bash arrays" as meaning "bash will become required"... Openrc works very nicely - many thanks to all who built and maintain it! Ed W