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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>
Cc: Tautological Eunuch Horticultural Scythians <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 14:15:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <67D8CB20-4D19-43D0-BDA5-6B2476A706AF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cbdf76dc-c250-4e8d-af58-f17d7041b65f@app.fastmail.com>



> On Jan 2, 2023, at 2:08 PM, Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023, at 13:00, Dan Cross wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 3:41 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If we wanted to use Makefiles in our customer run product, we would have
>>> shipped it.
>> 
>> Couldn't you also ship a shell? That kinda seems like the simplest solution.
> 
> Then you have to ship documentation on how to properly install the shell. Also, add guardrails to make sure that the correct shell is being loaded instead of someone getting ambitious with their exec path.
> 
> cf every products trying to ship its own python, ruby, etc instead of accepting defeat and shipping a statically build tool in a docker container in an OVA virtual machine image.
> 
> Obviously, that’s what should have been done with Bourne shell in the first place.

You came very close to owing me a new keyboard there.

Adam

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-02 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-30 18:25 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-12-30 19:51 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2022-12-30 20:02   ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-30 20:31     ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-30 20:49       ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-30 20:42     ` Sven Mascheck
2022-12-30 20:48       ` Jon Steinhart
2022-12-30 20:51         ` Sven Mascheck
2022-12-31 11:40         ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-31 18:49           ` Jon Steinhart
2022-12-31 19:24             ` Clem Cole
2023-01-03 16:32               ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-01  1:51             ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-02 20:03       ` [TUHS] Command Line Editing in the Terminal Driver (Was: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell) Joseph Holsten
2023-01-02 20:33         ` [TUHS] Re: Command Line Editing in the Terminal Driver Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-11  2:51           ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-11  3:53             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-01-02 21:08         ` [TUHS] Re: Command Line Editing in the Terminal Driver (Was: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell) Rob Pike
2023-01-03 16:53         ` Marshall Conover
2023-01-04  9:18           ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-11  2:56           ` Chris Hanson
2022-12-30 20:47     ` [TUHS] Re: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell Chet Ramey
2022-12-31  0:08     ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-31  3:59       ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-31  4:12         ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-31  4:18         ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-31  4:40           ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-31  4:19         ` Marc Donner
2022-12-31  4:23         ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-31  4:37           ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02  5:10           ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-01-02 16:25             ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 16:51               ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 17:32                 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-02 17:43                   ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 17:48                     ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-02 18:00                       ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-02 18:05                         ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-02 18:12                         ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 18:16                           ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 19:50                             ` Warner Losh
2023-01-02 20:05                               ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-02 19:21                           ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-02 19:34                             ` Rich Salz
2023-01-02 20:12                               ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 20:24                               ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-02 20:41                                 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 21:00                                   ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 21:06                                     ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 21:19                                       ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 22:54                                         ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-02 23:58                                           ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-04  9:00                                             ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-02 22:43                                       ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-02 21:08                                     ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-02 21:15                                       ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2023-01-02 17:55                     ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-02 18:11                       ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 18:36                         ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 18:48                           ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 18:18                       ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-04  3:20                     ` John Cowan
2023-01-04  3:31                       ` Dan Cross
2023-01-04  4:16                         ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-04 16:15                           ` Dan Cross
2023-01-04 18:28                             ` ron minnich
2023-01-04 19:33                             ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-04 15:21                       ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-04 15:54                         ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-02 17:55                 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-03 17:08                   ` Paul Winalski
2023-01-03 19:19                     ` Warner Losh
2023-01-03 19:56                       ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-03 20:21                       ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-03 21:47                       ` Clem Cole
2023-01-03 21:51                         ` Clem Cole
2022-12-31  4:41         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-12-30 20:20   ` Sven Mascheck
2022-12-30 20:49     ` Ron Natalie
2022-12-30 20:52       ` Rob Pike
2022-12-30 20:53       ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-01 10:44   ` arnold
2023-01-01 11:28     ` arnold
2023-01-03 16:34       ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-03 15:06     ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-30 19:57 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-31 12:55   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-01  2:55     ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01  4:38       ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-01  5:25         ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01  5:35           ` Dan Cross
2023-01-01  5:52             ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-01  6:35               ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01  6:35               ` Rob Pike
2023-01-01  6:27             ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01 14:50             ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-01  7:11           ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-01  7:21             ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01 10:25           ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-12-31 13:26 Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-31 22:19 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-03 15:08 Douglas McIlroy
2023-01-03 15:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-03 17:19   ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-05 13:22     ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2023-01-05 21:11       ` Rob Pike
2023-01-03 17:26 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-03 18:07   ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-03 20:19     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-01-03 23:03       ` ron minnich
2023-01-04  1:37         ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-04  1:58           ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-04 15:19             ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-04 18:01               ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-04 20:46                 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-05  0:06                   ` John Cowan
2023-01-05  0:41                     ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-04  5:05         ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-03 18:19   ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-01-04  1:29   ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-05  1:51     ` Alejandro Colomar

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