I would have thought it would be preferable to have a system that works than a fast one that doesn't. Besides, is bash really that slow?
Yes, ideally shell scripts that use #!/bin/sh shouldn't rely on bash features, but the truth is that a lot of them do, because every other distribution out there uses bash for sh. You can tell people to complain to the script authors, but there is going to be another script that doesn't work. And another. And another. And a thousand more. What I find perplexing is that Ubuntu of all distributions would make a decision like this, when from the very beginning it has always seemed to have had the goal of being easy to use and of "Just working". This is the kind of subtle and insidious difference that nobody is going to notice without hours of searching and experimentation. In the end people are going to just decide that "Ubuntu is broken" and move on. By the way, the installer for Borland Starteam also doesn't work. Add that to the list of software that Ubuntu now no longer supports. At work my team is looking to standardise on Ubuntu as our Linux development OS, but if we can't use this then I expect we'll end up using Fedora or another system. I'll be very disappointed if this happens. Good engineering involves making compromises. I hope you'll come to the right decision. -- Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink https://launchpad.net/bugs/61463 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
