From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7974 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 17:19:55 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Oct 2001 17:19:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 17768 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2001 17:19:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16159 Received: (qmail 17754 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 17:19:47 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:19:43 -0701 From: Jos Backus To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Mac OS X /bin/sh was zsh, to be replaced with bash Message-ID: <20011025101943.A92401@lizzy.bugworks.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus Mail-Followup-To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Yesterday I attended the local Bay Area Next user group meeting at Apple in Cupertino, at which an Apple employee (sorry, can't remember his name right now) mentioned that there are plans to replace /bin/sh, currently zsh 3.0.something, with bash. The primary reason he stated was zsh's lack of POSIX conformance that they kept having problems with. Unfortunately he did/could not go into any detail. He also said that as far as he knew no attempt had been made to contact the zsh maintainers about this. Now I could ask Jordan Hubbard at Apple if he would be willing to refer me to somebody to talk to about this issue, and ask this person what exactly these POSIX compatibility issues are they are having problems with. Maybe these issues can be addressed; they will never be fixed unless the developers are aware of them. Comments? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ josb@cncdsl.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer;