From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <658344c3-9568-d52e-728f-9dff2dfea0e1@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d00649dc-0be4-3b8a-5d10-84d58dd1c60e@redhat.com>
On 2017-02-23 14:41, Eric Blake wrote:
> Or more likely, many people likely have pre-existing scripts wrongly
> written as #!/bin/sh but which use bash-ism rather than portable
> POSIX-specified shell (if it is portable, then bash vs. dash executing
> the script shouldn't matter - but as Debian found out when they switched
> to dash, there are a lot of non-portable scripts). On the other hand,
> Debian has already fixed much of the pre-packaged badness out there and
> pushed fixes upstream where feasible, so these days it's not as hairy to
> switch as when Debian first did it.
>
> But part of me is still reluctant to make the switch as long as Fedora
> still favors bash over dash.
I concur; we simply don't have the manpower to handle this ourselves.
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Yaakov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-24 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-17 14:01 Eric Blake (cygwin)
2017-02-23 4:20 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-23 17:50 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-23 19:46 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-23 19:59 ` Brian Inglis
2017-02-23 20:41 ` Eric Blake
2017-02-24 7:19 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2017-02-23 23:44 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-24 14:32 ` Eric Blake
2017-02-24 19:19 ` Brian Inglis
2017-02-23 22:05 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-23 23:01 ` Tony Kelman
2017-02-23 23:04 ` Eliot Moss
2017-02-23 23:12 ` Kenneth Wolcott
2017-02-23 23:30 ` Vince Rice
2017-02-23 23:35 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-24 3:16 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2017-02-24 3:18 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2017-02-24 4:57 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-24 14:43 ` Eric Blake
2017-02-24 15:05 ` Lee Dilkie
2017-02-25 16:55 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-01 23:57 ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2017-02-23 23:33 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-25 16:46 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-25 17:09 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-27 10:20 ` Csaba Raduly
2017-02-27 12:48 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-27 23:13 ` Duncan Roe
2017-02-28 0:51 ` Steven Penny
2017-02-28 20:52 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-28 21:43 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-01 14:42 ` cyg Simple
2017-03-02 0:22 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-02 3:46 ` Vince Rice
2017-03-02 5:27 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-02 5:31 ` Vince Rice
2017-03-02 12:36 ` Steven Penny
2017-03-02 13:37 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-03-02 14:29 ` Eric Blake
2017-03-02 16:16 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-03-02 17:28 ` Brian Inglis
2017-03-02 18:45 ` Eric Blake
2017-03-02 23:23 ` Brian Inglis
2017-03-02 18:28 ` Achim Gratz
2017-03-02 14:31 ` Brian Inglis
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