zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

[Peter Stephenson]

You can get another test release of 5.0.8 from

http://www.zsh.org/pub/development

I'm hoping I can release this within a couple of days.

pws

Re: zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

[Martijn Dekker]

Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:06:
> You can get another test release of 5.0.8 from
> 
> http://www.zsh.org/pub/development
> 
> I'm hoping I can release this within a couple of days.

Unfortunately, it has the 'test' bug I posted about just now.

$ Src/zsh
% test -n '('
test: too many arguments
% [ -n ')' ]
[: too many arguments
%

- M.

Re: zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

[Peter Stephenson]

On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:33:52 +0200
Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> wrote:
> Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:06:
> > You can get another test release of 5.0.8 from
> > 
> > http://www.zsh.org/pub/development
> > 
> > I'm hoping I can release this within a couple of days.
> 
> Unfortunately, it has the 'test' bug I posted about just now.

That's very minor and has been there for ages --- I hope I'll get a
chance to fix it (suspect it's easy) but it's not going to block the release
anyway.

pws

Re: zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

[Martijn Dekker]

Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:50:
> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:33:52 +0200
> Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> wrote:
>> Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:06:
>>> You can get another test release of 5.0.8 from
>>>
>>> http://www.zsh.org/pub/development
>>>
>>> I'm hoping I can release this within a couple of days.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it has the 'test' bug I posted about just now.
> 
> That's very minor and has been there for ages --- I hope I'll get a
> chance to fix it (suspect it's easy) but it's not going to block the release
> anyway.

The spurious error message is not the real problem. Because of the
incorrect exit status, this causes any POSIX script that uses 'test -n
$stuff' or '[ -n $stuff ]' on arbitrary input (i.e. which might include
'(' or ')') to take the wrong action, so I would hardly call this minor.

- M.

Re: zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> wrote:
> Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:50:
>> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:33:52 +0200
>> Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> wrote:
>>> Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:06:
>>>> You can get another test release of 5.0.8 from
>>>>
>>>> http://www.zsh.org/pub/development
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping I can release this within a couple of days.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, it has the 'test' bug I posted about just now.
>>
>> That's very minor and has been there for ages --- I hope I'll get a
>> chance to fix it (suspect it's easy) but it's not going to block the release
>> anyway.
>
> The spurious error message is not the real problem. Because of the
> incorrect exit status, this causes any POSIX script that uses 'test -n
> $stuff' or '[ -n $stuff ]' on arbitrary input (i.e. which might include
> '(' or ')') to take the wrong action, so I would hardly call this minor.

The important factor is that it is not a regression.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Re: zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 08:06:31PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> You can get another test release of 5.0.8 from
> 
> http://www.zsh.org/pub/development
> 
> I'm hoping I can release this within a couple of days.

Builds and works fine as Debian package so far.

And thanks to Jun T. I could also drop our own patch to support
texinfo-5. Yay!

		Kind regards, Axel
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