On 8/14/06, Dick Marinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started hacking libbash and xconfig to make both scripts compatible
> with bash 2 and older coreutils (I'm stuck to a Red Hat 7.3 environment)
> Please review my patches attached to this mail.
> I think it would be a good idea to use autoconf / automake to detect the
> bash version and generate the scripts with appropriate code. Could
> someone please give me some hints about this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dick
>
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Hi,
I haven't looked at the patches yet, but I'd like to address the issue
of implementing backwards-compatability:
Such patches are likely to change as code is added to the projects,
and version-controling them could become ugly. Instead, we should keep
backwards-compatible files under version-control.
One way to do it is to maintain shadows ('branches') of xconfig and
libbash specifically for backwards-compatibility.
Another way is to keep backwards-compatible files alongside uptodate
files, and let the autotools choose which to install (according to
versions of bash and coreutils).
Personally, I have no preference between these two ways - the first
way means administration hassle, and the second means autotools
hassle.
Alon
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