From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from artemis.le.ac.uk ([143.210.16.126]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <45008>; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:18:27 -0500 Received: from happy.star.le.ac.uk ([143.210.36.58]) by artemis.le.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15ucHs-0001en-00 for rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:14:20 +0100 Received: (qmail 17013 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 16:14:41 -0000 Received: from fozzie.star.le.ac.uk (tjg@143.210.36.216) by happy.star.le.ac.uk with QMQP; 19 Oct 2001 16:14:41 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:14:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20011019161440.1621.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk> From: Tim Goodwin To: gcarvell@wirefire.com CC: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu In-reply-to: <20011019004843.A429@gc.wirefire.com> (gcarvell@wirefire.com) Subject: Re: Beta release rc-1.6b3 available References: <20011015125606.2248.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk> <20011019004843.A429@gc.wirefire.com> > rc 1.6b3 builds, makes trip, and runs fine for me. This > is on a PC running Slackware Linux 8.0 (kernel 2.4.12, > 2.2.3). Haven't done any exotic testing but I'm using > it as my login shell with no problems. Thanks for the report. Incidentally, so far the only problem report with rc-1.6b3 was a thinko in the documentation (now fixed). If anybody's discovered any problems at all, *please* let me know. Thanks! > It appears that the consensus > was not to include [the equals hack] in rc, but I wondered if it > could be a build-time option or even a commented line > in parse.y that the user could enable at build time. I'm not sure if there was anything as grand as consensus! I agree with you that it should be available in some way to those that want it; probably as a configure `--with-eq-hack' option or somesuch (although at the same time I'm reluctant to introduce yet more configure options). At the moment, I really want to get rc-1.7 out the door, as it does contain important bug and portability fixes over rc-1.6. When that's done, we can reconsider more exotic things... Regards, Tim.