Sorry, clicked the wrong reply button and somehow dropped the list.

> On 2. Nov 2024, at 20:04, Yury V. Zaytsev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 2. Nov 2024, at 12:22, Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat Nov 2, 2024 at 12:02 PM CET, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>>> Notably, the default /bin/sh on Solaris is not XPG4-compliant.
>> 
>> Aside from my very little will to support
>> purchase of yet another island by Larry,
>> https://solarisfacts.blogspot.com/p/working-with-shell.html
>> claims that shell on Solaris 10 (the oldest still supported
>> version) supports $().
>> 
>> Is it true?
> 
> As I said, /bin/sh doesn't support it. If you read the blog post you linked 
> more carefully, you'll see that the author is referring to ksh, which does 
> support $().
> 
>> And if you tell me, that you want to keep mc development hostage
>> to people who would like to run master branch mc on the ancient
>> unsupported Solaris, then I would call it … Let’s not call it.
> 
> Again, I have to repeat myself: I see no reason to intentionally break 
> systems if keeping them supported is not too much of a hassle. As one of the 
> mc maintainers, it's up to me to decide if it's too cumbersome for me or not. 
> In this case, I see no problem with continuing to use backticks for scripts 
> that need to run under /bin/sh instead of bash, ksh, etc. for the time being.
> 
> I'm a little concerned about you, though, because it's not clear to me what's 
> causing so much aggression on your part. According to our exchange so far, 
> your eyes hurt, you're worried about supporting Larry, you think mc 
> development is being held hostage by e.g. the Illumos people… That all 
> doesn't sound very healthy. I would suggest chilling out a bit. It's just 
> software, after all, some 0's and 1's on some storage medium.
> 
> Thanks for bringing to my attention that we are not consistent about 
> backticks, though. I fixed it for the scripts I tried a few months ago, but I 
> didn't go through all the extfs helpers.
> 

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