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From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [Attn: base-files maintainer] Changing /etc/profile to add more shell-dependent settings
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561EA3AF.9080507@dinwoodie.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85116059.20151014212702@yandex.ru>

On 14/10/2015 19:27, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Adam Dinwoodie!
>> That, however, doesn't give me anywhere to put the Bash fzf script.
>> It's not POSIX compliant, so I don't want to use ".sh".  I can't
>> find any directory other than /etc/profile.d that Bash trawls, though.
> If my opinion matters, I would advocate making scripts POSIX compliant, unless
> there's strong reason to explicitly require shell-dependent functionality.

The script is fundamentally dependent on Bash features -- it's binding 
keys in the Bash interactive shell -- and cannot be made POSIX compliant.

It's also part of the fzf project, and making extensive changes like 
that as part of packaging someone else's code seems to rather negate the 
point in doing the packaging.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14 15:53 Adam Dinwoodie
2015-10-14 16:20 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-14 16:20 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-10-14 16:32   ` Adam Dinwoodie
2015-10-14 16:53 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-14 17:14   ` Adam Dinwoodie
2015-10-14 18:35     ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-14 18:49       ` Adam Dinwoodie [this message]
2015-10-14 20:15     ` Achim Gratz

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