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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