On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:27:40PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > What functionality do we need of bash that the POSIX-standard Bourne shell > does not provide? I suspect that we need nothing that we can't get using > perfectly standard means.
Certainly. However, there are some cases where the solution is sed code that almost nobody can read, let alone fix. Your recent script to detect the loaded hyphenation packages plays in that league. In fact, it was what prompted the question we are currently discussing. > Lars has already demonstrated how he could use > sed and echo to get what he wants in this particular case. I am sure we'll find in every case a non-bash solution. With the same kind of argument we could use plain C for LyX and require only plain TeX for the backend. Andre'
