David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: >> Yes, I do... however the main convern is the backwards-compatibilty >> since bash4 is not fully backwards-compatible to bash3 and we won't get >> any funding for something similar like the "ksh88toksh93 migration >> toolkit". > > On the other hand, we're using bash as the default shell for > familiarity reasons. The question I would ask is which version are > Ubuntu, Fedora and other open source distributions shipping?
Ubuntu still has 3.2 http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bash&searchon=names&suite=karmic§ion=all Fedora is moving to 4.0 in 11 http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/bash/F-11/ -- Jan Hnatek jan.hnatek at sun.com
