On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:20:14 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > Hello,
Hello Ville, > What's the status of keeping support for bash < 3.0, do we have people around > here who strongly think that it should be preserved and/or who regularly test > with older versions? AFAICT, me and Luk had plans on removing those bits after fixing as much as possible existing bugs. Oh, well, we also had plans about improving the loading mechanism altogether :-) > Personally, I don't have access to a box that has bash < 3.0 any more and > thus I'm not able to test with those versions any more nor would mind them > being dropped, but I'm not insisting dropping either. I second dropping <3.0 features, but I believe the completions would really need a deep look :-) > What prompted me to ask this question was an interesting looking patch posted > to Red Hat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479936 > I suppose there would be possibilities for further > cleanups/optimizations/simplifications if bash 3.0 was the oldest supported > version. Would you mind setting up a wiki page for this, as well? Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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