From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2961 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 14:43:04 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 14:43:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 6213 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2001 14:41:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15248 Received: (qmail 6179 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 14:41:47 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: About ZSH vs. BASH Message-Id: Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:45:34 +0200 From: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado Reply-To: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado Sender: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado X-Mailer: DervishD TWiSTiNG Mailer Hello, zsh-workers :) First of all, thanks for the work that all of you have dedicated to ZSh. It simply has no price. Keep on with it. Let's go to the matter: we at work want to get rid of Bash for some particular reasons, and we were ready for writing our own shell but, unfortunately, we are coped with lot of job and cannot afford that project by now. Anyway, the shell that we all have in mind is quite similar with zsh: we don't want 'libreadline', we want it modular, small, fast, and quite standard. So, the choice is quite simple: we will take zsh as our system shell and sometime in the future, if necessary, will start our shell project (if possible...). The problem here is that we use to compile the programs we run, because our directory layout is special and because our Linux is hand-made, not a distribution. So, we need a shell capable of interpret the './configure' scripts and other scripts which came with the sources. At this point we fully know that BASH interprets them, and we want to know if we can use zsh not only as an user shell, but if we can use it as our /bin/sh, fully replacing BASH; the problem is precisely this: we cannot use both shells, although we could consider using zsh & ash. This is not sure at all, so we would sleep better if zsh could be used as a full replacement. Well, I know this may be a stupid question, but we are very interested in introducing zsh in our systems. Thank you very much indeed for your time and for reading this. You can be very proud of your work: it makes user lives easier. Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado