Hi Roberto On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 8:37 AM, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k...@shike2.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 09:16:26PM +0200, Silvan Jegen wrote: >> > * `echo` is unportable and `printf` should be used instead. >> >> Didn't know that echo was not portable. Thought it was just a builtin >> that should work the same everywhere. It's probably the flags that are >> the issue... > > echo is portable, bad usage of echo is not portable. Use printf > when you want complex numeric conversions or escape sequences, > otherwise use echo. > >> If we go with option 1) I would like to wait to see which C functionality >> we would end up needing in the end. Looking at the C code I would postpone >> until after that decision has been made. > > You can do whatever you want, but you should ask to the maintainers first, > and I am pretty sure they don't agree with the kind of tests that you want to > implement, so don't lose your time and try to have a conversation first with > the maintainers. Everything else that is not agreed with them is not going > to be applied.
Sadly, the maintainers haven't chimed in on this discussion at all yet. AFAIK Michael is the current maintainer for sbase and of course I was hoping to elicit some response from any of the maintainers by discussing testing approaches on the mailing list. If you are a maintainer, I can tell that we would have to use a different approach already :P Cheers, Silvan
