On 08/08/07, Jonathan Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:18, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > Jonathan Edwards wrote: > >> why not just make it an install option: > >> /bin/sh? > >> [ ] Bourne > >> [ ] Korn > >> [ ] Bourne Again > >> [ ] C > >> [ ] Zoidberg > >> of course choosing any church may make you a heretic to others > > > > How would any scripts that start with #!/bin/sh actually work then? > > > > you'd either have to write to the lowest common denominator [hard] > > /or/ > > we could just use /bin/sh as a translation layer to figure out which > shell *should* be run based on preference or syntax [easier] .. using > #!/bin/sh is almost like using "dude" in conversation - it's a little > ambiguous and hardly a standardized programming interface
Hear hear! Programmers that depend on /bin/sh being bash should be drawn and quartered (figuratively speaking of course). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
