On Fri, 3 May 2013, Trevor Woerner wrote: > If every other distribution, over the next year, switched to > python-3 as their default, but (instead of updating) future versions > of Ubuntu installed a symlink called python-3 pointing back to > python-2, would that hold back Yocto from adopting python-3-isms > too? > > It's sad how Ubuntu has so effectively killed the adoption of all > features of bash (the default shell on many Linux distributions) > introduced in the last 10 years by masquerading their crippled shell > as "bash". And it's even sadder to see how so many projects, in > response, have simply said "let's write all our shell scripts in > original Bourne shell syntax" as a result.
personally, i try to be posix-compliant as much as possible to avoid this kind of grief. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto