Re: ITP checkbashisms -- Check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 14:41 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> We're not debian, and don't explicitly exclude the use of bashism in 
> *ALL* [/usr]/bin/*.sh scripts.  Even debian doesn't disallow bashisms i 
> *usr*/bin/ scripts -- and as /bin == /usr/bin on cygwin, we can't realy 
> distinguish between /bin/*.sh and /usr/bin/*sh.  Some of our scripts, in 
> fact, have sh-bang lines explicitly requiring bash (e.g. cygport).
> 
> So...I'm not sure this is a totally useful tool for cygwin; it might 
> lead to unnecessary list traffic:
> 
> "Hey, checkbashisms complains about /usr/bin/cygport, please fix..."
> 
> I realize this doesn't require votes as it is already in debian, and I 
> certainly have no veto power, but if it did require votes I'd be giving 
> it a '0' not a '+1'.

You make valid points, but I suppose it would still be useful for
someone writing sh scripts on Cygwin to check their portability to
stricter /bin/sh shells on other systems.

So while I'm hardly overwhelmed by the necessity for adding this
package, its not completely useless on Cygwin either.


Yaakov