From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:52:04 +0200 Message-ID: <8e04b5820912052352w304556cdufac28cc2dd3f9ffe@mail.gmail.com> From: "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [9fans] rc shell UNIX port repository Topicbox-Message-UUID: a97bb542-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello all! I'm a new (1 week) user of the rc shell (I want to migrate from the Sh/Bash and their offsprings to rc after a lot of pain and misery with them). :) And so far I like the rc look-and-feel (by look I mean syntax and by feel I mean semantics.) as their quite minimal and with just the right functionality. :) So back to the point: I'm using rc-1.7.1 UNIX port of the rc shell, downloaded from: http://www.libra-aries-books.co.uk/software/download/rc/rc-1.7.1.tar.gz and during my initial trials, I've found quite a few bugs related with the `-e` (exit shell on non-0 exit code), which I've tried (and think I've managed) to solve. Now I'm trying to contribute back to the community, and I've sent an email to Tig Goodwin (at tjg@star.le.ac.uk), which the mail server rejected (it seems that the email is not valid any more). Then I've sent an email to Byron Rakitzis (at byron@netapp.com), which worked but no reply yet (maybe I'm on the to-do list. :) ) So my questions are: * who is maintaining the UNIX port of rc shell? (is it still Tig?) (if so what's the email address?) * is there a development repository for the source code? * is there a mailing list dedicated to the rc shell? (either native or UNIX ported one?) * are there any unit-tests available for the rc shell? (because I want to test my patches of not breaking something;) Thanks, Ciprian. P.S.: In my migration from Sh/Bash I've ended up deciding between two candidates: scsh (Scheme Shell) (which is quite powerfull, being a full R5RS Scheme implementation, with process management support, but I've found a few rough edges (mainly related with error handling), and it's quite heavy weight implementation with a large (in file number) footprint), and rc (quite lightweight (only one executable statically linked)). So are there any other worthy alternatives?