From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:46:21 -0400 From: Kurt H Maier To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120828174621.GB12589@intma.in> References: <20120828153548.GC11005@intma.in> <9c0543674fa8e439596fc14d43f6d9ea@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9c0543674fa8e439596fc14d43f6d9ea@proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] rc vs sh Topicbox-Message-UUID: b190a510-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 06:05:04PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > > But note that even if it does work, it is still not possible for the > Go Team to release the scripts as /bin/sh scripts because, as you have > clearly not yet grasped, not all /bin/sh instances out there can be > shown to be compatible with any one /bin/sh script, not matter how > "portable"! > This problem has been solved in myriad ways by myraid teams. Requiring bash is one of the solutions. My only actual statement is that a better solution would be de-shitting the build process so that it doesn't require such a precise set of software to operate. That's all. Relax.