FWIW: we are using bash in devstack if we were going to try to make it POSIX bourne shell (or whatever /bin/sh is) it would have been a huge pain.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Dougal Matthews <dou...@redhat.com> wrote: > Another +1 for using bash. Sounds like an easy win. > > > On 15/04/14 12:31, Ghe Rivero wrote: > >> +1 to use bash as the default shell. So far, all major distros use bash >> as the default one (except Debian which uses dash). >> An about rewriting the code in Python, I agree that shell is complicated >> for large programs, but writing anything command oriented in other than >> shell is a nightmare. But there are some parts that can benefit from that. >> >> Ghe Rivero >> >> On 04/15/2014 11:05 AM, Chris Jones wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> On 15 April 2014 09:14, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com >>> <mailto:berra...@redhat.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I supose that rewriting the code to be in Python is out of the >>> question ? IMHO shell is just a terrible language for doing any >>> program that is remotely complicated (ie longer than 10 lines of >>> >>> >>> I don't think it's out of the question - where something makes sense >>> to switch to Python, that would seem like a worthwhile thing to be >>> doing. I do think it's a different question though - we can quickly >>> flip things from /bin/sh to /bin/bash without affecting their >>> suitability for replacement with python. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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