Tom,
Are you volunteering to convert the shell functions in CVS Libtool
into non-shell-function code? I would like to see this discussion
go in a different direction. I would like to see a list of the
platforms known to NOT have shell functions in their Bourne shells.
My point is that there are
> I don't see the urgency to move to shell functions, but I do
> see how they can simplify our lives.
Uh... "if not now, when"?
Seriously, there's _always_ commercial incentive to do a half assed
job and the _real_ ego competition is to reject that incentive and do
a good jo
Bruce> Bootstrap-Bash could use a frozen version of configure.
This means freezing at least one copy of Bash. Doable.
But I still think it might be a bit too soon. I don't see the urgency
to move to shell functions, but I do see how they can simplify our
lives.
