From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13069 invoked from network); 28 Jan 1998 16:47:23 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Jan 1998 16:47:23 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00159; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:32:43 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:32:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <9801281609.AA10430@marathon.cs.ucla.edu> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Two Flavors of ZSH ? Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:09:27 -0800 From: Eskandar Ensafi Resent-Message-ID: <"83VZu3.0.P2.hsrpq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3740 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Hello, I used to be involved in ZSH development, but I have been away for about two years. I recall that around the time that I was still involved (ZSH 2.6 was the official release and talk about ZSH 3.0 had just started), there were two flavors of ZSH: the official distribution and the Zefram-patched distribution. It was my understanding that when Zoltan Hidvegi took over the list from Richard Coleman (is Zoltan still in charge of things?), he was going to incorporate Zefram's patches into the official ZSH release in the interest of preventing ZSH from proliferating into several different and potentially incompatible products. After I rejoined this mailing list, I noticed a zsh-3.1.2-zefram3 patch. Does this mean that we have more than one flavor of ZSH in the world? Regards, Eskandar P.S. Is dynamic loading available in the current ZSH, and if so, is it stable on supported platforms? A few years ago, I was going to add a module called Objective-Z to add Objective-C support to ZSH. I gave up on it because it required custom patches to ZSH and worked only on systems with GNU C (in fact, my prototype only ran under NEXTSTEP, which is now OPENSTEP). Perhaps integrated dynamic loading supprt will make my task simpler and more portable (the idea was to dynamically load Objective-C classes to extend the shell's functionality). -- Eskandar Ensafi Space Computer Corporation http://www.spacecomputer.com