Hi, > On 9/6/2010 12:10 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: > > > > This ought to be able to cover the shell as well. Then we just need > to > > choose a shell that is acceptable to everyone, which might not be > bash > > > It's bash. Anything except bash is a world of pain that we really > really > don't want to deal with. > (yes I know debian/ubuntu use dash like this, and it's causing them > constant issues.. no thanks)
Ubuntu switch to dash 4 years ago. It was a pain at the beginning and most of the packages were fixed a long time ago (the number of packages in Debian/Ubuntu isn't comparable to MeeGo). Patches were merged upstream to fix POSIX compliant issues. That said, there's real alternative to bash (zsh, etc...). Even if the default shell is bash v4.0, couldn't we allow POSIX compliant shells? Cheers, Fathi _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
