From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:16:33 +0200 Message-ID: <5460998.LAKFoTKeDR@coil> User-Agent: KMail/4.9 (Linux/3.5.0-l45; KDE/4.9.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] rc vs sh Topicbox-Message-UUID: b0b50c9e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 16:10:39 Lucio De Re wrote: > > Anyway, I do not understand how uniform crappiness can be advantage= ous... >=20 > The issue raised on Go-Nuts is that Bash shouldn't be used for > installing Go, /bin/sh should be used instead. The response is that > Bash is the most uniformly implemented of the /bin/sh's out there and= > that none of the other shells (generally referred to as /bin/sh) can > be relied upon not to have incompatible foibles that would trip up a > complicated script headed #!/bin/sh. (...) that somehow reminds me of autoconf *runs away* -- dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] I'm sorry that this was such a long lett=C2=ADer, but I didn't have tim= e to write=20 you a short one. -- Bla=C2=ADise Pasc=C2=ADal