On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | Is it possible to install bash on all systems we support?
> >
> | If so, wouldn't it be simpler to require a working 'bash'
> | and drop all these 'portability hacks'?
>
> Depends... remember that even on Linux not everyone uses bash.
That's fine as long as configure we can find one on the system. The
average Linux comes with a dozen shells preinstalled and I don't know a
single system without a bash, even if that's not some user's preference.
> ${foo/$bar} is a special kind of Parameter Expansion, other shells
> often have someting similar.
>
> but `cat $foo | sed -e "s/$bar//"` should work equally well, (but you
> might need to massge the pattern ($bar) a bit more than we do now.
But this is neither efficient nor readable.
> | After all, we require (fairly) Standard C++, too, and do not care
> | for each and every broken C++ compiler out there.
>
> I am ambivalent. Since _I_ use bash all the time: no problem for me.
> But there are a lot of systems where bash is not the system/preffered
> shell.
Being installed would be enough, wouldn't it?
Andre'
