On 06/21/2012 04:29 AM, Duncan wrote: > Richard Yao posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:50:33 -0400 as excerpted: > >> On 06/20/2012 04:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:25:30 -0400 Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>>> POSIX Shell compliance >>> >>> So far as I know, every PM relies heavily upon bash anyway (and can't >>> easily be made not to), so even if developers would accept having to >>> rewrite all their eclasses, it still wouldn't remove the dep. >>> >> Lets address POSIX compliance in the ebuilds first. Then we can deal >> with the package managers. > > Additionally, this is extremely unlikely because a number of developers > insist on bash, to the extent that it would likely split gentoo in half > if this were to be forced. It wouldn't pass council. It's unlikely to > even /get/ to council. > > Openrc could move to POSIX shell because its primary dev at the time > wanted it that way and it's only a single package. However, even then, > doing it was controversial enough that said developer ended up leaving > gentoo in-part over that, tho he did continue to develop openrc as a > gentoo hosted project for quite some years. Now you're talking trying to > do it for /every/ (well, almost every) package, thus touching every > single gentoo dev. It's just not going to happen in even the medium term > (say for argument APIs 5-7ish), let alone be something practical enough > to implement, soon enough (even if everyone agreed on the general idea, > they don't), to be anything like conceivable for EAPI5. > > So just let that one be. It's simply not worth tilting at that windmill.
Would you (or someone else) elaborate on the specific features of bash that people find attractive?
