Keith MARSHALL wrote: > > >> really skilled, i would try to port zsh (wich is much powerfull > >> than bash). > You are, of course, entitled to that opinion. Personally, I consider > bash to be *more* than powerful enough :-)
there is a lot of little features that creates zsh addiction ( zed , zle multiline edition, ...). Bash is not so featured and is bigger and slower (as i can see daily). So why use bash ? > Which is exactly why those of us who engage in such porting activity > use Cygwin or MinGW+MSYS. AFAIK, Kees uses MinGW+MSYS to build the > GnuWin32 packages; no doubt, he will correct me if I'm wrong. > > In fact, if you are serious about code portability, then you really > *must* eschew *all* of those fancy extended shell features of zsh, > and even of bash or ksh. totally agreed with you : i told about zsh only as for the daily use. Not for makefiles (i don't know about the POSIX sh emulation of zsh) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
