From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Opensource.com Zsh article
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:37:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a681972-e690-a800-306f-182cd686030d@inlv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4b9f8e1-ad20-40a0-5da5-2854fb0652a3@eastlink.ca>
Op 18-09-19 om 18:06 schreef Ray Andrews:
> On 2019-09-17 5:39 p.m., TJ Luoma wrote:
>> https://scriptingosx.com/moving-to-zsh/
>
> It astonishes me that the reason for the switch is claimed to be a
> licensing version detail.
There's nothing astonishing about that. It's been well known for years
that Apple won't touch the GPLv3 with a ten foot pole. That's why all
the GNU stuff in macOS is stuck on the last GPLv2 versions, which are
all really old now, so they're slowly replacing it all.
> I understand that there's no one left in the
> cockpit at bash, would that not be a better reason?
What makes you think that? If you read through the bug-bash list it's
pretty obvious that Chet is still firmly in charge and actively
developing bash as always. It had a new major 5.0 release fairly
recently as well, which make it run scripts quite a lot faster.
> Even now I can't
> quite accept that something as essential to computing as the shell
> should be treated so casually. So it's zsh from now on, but even then
> all this will rest on the shoulders of our few intrepid volunteers?
Apple has plenty of in-house manpower and expertise to take over zsh
development if the need should ever arise. They've done that sort of
thing before (CUPS comes to mind). Meanwhile perhaps they'll contribute.
- M.
--
modernish -- harness the shell
https://github.com/modernish/modernish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-18 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-17 22:29 Bart Schaefer
2019-09-18 0:39 ` TJ Luoma
2019-09-18 16:06 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 16:13 ` Jérémie Roquet
2019-09-18 16:37 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 16:54 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-18 17:05 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 17:17 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-09-18 19:23 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 22:37 ` Martijn Dekker [this message]
2019-09-19 1:43 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-19 16:08 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-19 17:32 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-19 18:04 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-19 19:40 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-19 22:33 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-19 22:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-09-20 0:06 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-20 1:01 ` TJ Luoma
2019-09-20 3:51 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-20 13:33 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-20 13:51 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-20 21:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-09-20 22:08 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-21 8:21 ` Daniel Shahaf
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