From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2252 invoked from network); 3 Nov 1998 19:05:44 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Nov 1998 19:05:44 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA28505; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:56:04 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:56:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199811031854.SAA26578@diamond.tao.co.uk> Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.5 - (Sven) Case-insensitive globbing To: jhi@cc.hut.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 18:54:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "Zefram" Cc: b.stephens@isode.com, wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: from "Jarkko Hietaniemi" at Nov 3, 98 08:09:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"3st-61.0.Kz6.37rFs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4521 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >I am implementing the library under the Artistic License (available >from the Perl distribution) so there should be no trouble including it >into zsh, right? The Artistic License restricts the right to redistribute modified versions more than the zsh license does. Perl itself is actually released under two licenses simultaneously, the Artistic License and the GPL; the GPL gives total permission to redistribute modified versions, as does the zsh license. I would not be happy with part of the zsh distribution having the more restrictive conditions of the Artistic License. >Interested? I'm concerned about how it would be integrated into zsh's globbing code. I doubt that we can actually use an external library for fuzzy matching, at least in the cases where the glob pattern contains more than just literal text. But others here should be able to give a more definitive opinion on this. >The feature: "union directories" aka "multiple working directories" >aka "virtual directories". That's an OS issue. The shell really mustn't fiddle with the semantics of the filesystem. Not to mention that it *will* get people into trouble -- no one will expect "rm *" to affect more than one directory. -zefram