Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 18:15 -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > A builtin ls might be a good idea for disaster recovery shells, > though zsh-static does not have it. posh is not intended to be > such a shell, nor to be particularly useful interactively. > Since I cannot think of a legitimate reason for an

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread Clint Adams
> Why not ls? Judging by the lack of wishlist bugs requesting it and my own feeling of revulsion at the idea, I'd say that it's because no one wants it. A builtin ls might be a good idea for disaster recovery shells, though zsh-static does not have it. posh is not intended to be such a shell, no

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:57 -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > Forgive me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that posh was > > created for the purpose of providing a shell which supports a minimum > > of functionality required by policy against which scripts could be > > Not exactly a minimu

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread Clint Adams
> Forgive me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that posh was > created for the purpose of providing a shell which supports a minimum > of functionality required by policy against which scripts could be Not exactly a minimum. For example, posh implements a POSIX pwd builtin. If it wer

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-17 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:55:57PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > What you are saying, in essence, is that we have not been > treating autoconf transitions with the care we devote to other > transitions; and as a result people have started shipping > intermediate files. > > Wh

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think, as Andi said earlier, we have come to a rough > consensus here. Or close enough, for me. Russ, please go ahead and > create the new version of the patch for your proposal, as you > mentioned in your mail with > Message-ID: <[EMA

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread Jari Aalto
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am of two mind with that. On the positive side it removes the promise > to the users that the system works with _any_ POSIX-compliant /bin/sh, which > is something we never actively tested. > > On the other hand, it more or less mandates that /bin/sh

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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:35:14PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Your scripts shouuld really just use whatever POSIX mandates > > ls has. Just like it should use whatever POSIX mandates test has. > > Ok, so this means so

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Bug#357613: appearing from almost

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