On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:44:04 -0500
Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2018-02-18 16:01:52 +:
> > On 2018-02-18 03:55:51 -0600 (-0600), Monty Taylor wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I'd honestly argue in favor of assuming bash and using 'source'
> > > because it's more read
>> On 2018-02-18 03:55:51 -0600 (-0600), Monty Taylor wrote:
>> > That said - I completely agree with fungi on the description of
>> > the tradeoffs of each direction, and I do think it's valuable to
>> > pick one for the docs.
FWIW, DevStack declared long ago that it was built to use bash, even
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Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2018-02-18 16:01:52 +:
> On 2018-02-18 03:55:51 -0600 (-0600), Monty Taylor wrote:
> [...]
> > I'd honestly argue in favor of assuming bash and using 'source'
> > because it's more readable. We don't make allowances for alternate
> > shells in our examp
On 2018-02-18 03:55:51 -0600 (-0600), Monty Taylor wrote:
[...]
> I'd honestly argue in favor of assuming bash and using 'source'
> because it's more readable. We don't make allowances for alternate
> shells in our examples anyway.
>
> I personally try to use 'source' vs . and $() vs. `` as
> aggr
On 02/17/2018 03:03 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2018-02-17 13:47:02 -0500 (-0500), Hongbin Lu wrote:
[...]
If anyone can clarify the rationals of this convention, it will be
really helpful.
[...]
There's a trade-off here: while `.` is standardized in POSIX sh
(under Utilities, Dot in the spec
On 2018-02-17 13:47:02 -0500 (-0500), Hongbin Lu wrote:
[...]
> If anyone can clarify the rationals of this convention, it will be
> really helpful.
[...]
There's a trade-off here: while `.` is standardized in POSIX sh
(under Utilities, Dot in the specification), it's easy to miss when
reading doc
Hi all,
We have contributors submit patches [1] about switching over from 'source'
to '.'. Frankly, it is a bit confused for reviewers to review those
patches since it is unclear what are the rationals of the change. By
tracing down to the patch [2] that introduced this convention,
unfortunately,
