From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8133 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2001 18:34:43 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Mar 2001 18:34:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 29455 invoked by alias); 20 Mar 2001 18:34:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13677 Received: (qmail 29443 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2001 18:34:31 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1010320183233.ZM16084@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:32:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: <009f01c0b11c$6918d690$b90806c0@wipro.com> Comments: In reply to "vipin aravind" "Zshell for win32" (Mar 20, 2:31pm) References: <009f01c0b11c$6918d690$b90806c0@wipro.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: "vipin aravind" , Subject: Re: Zshell for win32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 20, 2:31pm, vipin aravind wrote: } Subject: Zshell for win32 } } Zshell32:- This is going to be a port of unix open source shell(Zshell) } The idea of the port is to evolve an open source shell for native win32. } It will be based heavily on Zshell(3.1.9 or 4.0.1). Future versions of } Zshell32 will be based on the Zshell port of 3.1.9 or 4.0.1 and not on future } versions of zshell.This is important for Zshell32 to evolve in win32. If what you're creating is not going to be zsh, then it should not have a name resembling zsh or zshell. I'm willing to give you all the help I can to produce a win32 port of zsh that will at least track, and ideally could be folded into, the regular zsh sources -- but I'm not pleased at the idea of wading through questions from confused windows users who don't know that the shell they have is not really zsh. } Certain factors like NO forking in win32 puts a severe limit on the } port. I thought Amol's code had a pretty good fork emulation built into it; in fact unless I'm very much mistaken I've had some success using that fork emulation in porting other (smaller) unix programs to win32. } Features that won't be supported:- } 1) No ksh and Bourne shell emulation. } Instead provide cmd emulation and provide the necessary entry points } to emulate any other shells for win32. It's going to be a lot more work to remove the sh/ksh emulation than to leave it alone. Why would you want to take it out? } 2) First release will support no extra modules and multilanguage } support. Not surprising, though the cygwin build should provide some hints on how to construct DLLs for the modules. } Features that will be supported:- } 1) All the current Zshell programming syntax. } 2) similar startup scripts as in unix. A reasonable start. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net