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From: bas@astro.uva.nl (Bas V. de Bakker)
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Announcement draft
Date: 01 Aug 1996 08:36:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ja3f27happ.fsf@leda.astro.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi's message of Wed, 31 Jul 1996 23:11:12 +0200 (MET DST)

Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu> writes:

> More than a thousand bugs have been fixed since the release of
> zsh-2.5.0

This makes 2.5.0 sound quite unusable, which it wasn't.  Are you also
counting the bugs introduced after 2.5.0?

> Additionally zsh is probably one of the most portable program
> available for Unix.  It uses GNU autoconf and it builds out of the
> box on most systems.

Considering the amount of system calls a shell uses, it is surely very
portable.  But I tend to doubt whether this is true when compared to
all kinds of programs that do not need to depend on system specific
features.

> /bin/sh can be safely linked to zsh.

This sounded too good to be true, so I just tested this on the perl
Configure script and it failed, sorry.  (To be slightly more precise:
when typing '& -d' at a prompt to make it use the defaults zsh gives
me a parse error, while /bin/sh (POSIX, not traditional Bourne) has no
problems.  This on HPUX 10.10.)

Bas.


  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-08-01  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-31 21:11 Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-31 22:15 ` Zefram
1996-08-01  6:36 ` Bas V. de Bakker [this message]
1996-08-01  8:31   ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01  9:04     ` Running zsh as sh (Was: Announcement draft) Bas V. de Bakker
1996-08-01  9:10     ` Announcement draft Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-01 13:49       ` Here docs Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 14:07         ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 16:27           ` More Configure problems Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 17:40             ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 17:55               ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 21:03                 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 23:30                   ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02  8:32                   ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-02 10:03                     ` Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-02 13:29                       ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02  1:03             ` Zefram
1996-08-01 14:42   ` Announcement draft Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-08 15:13 ` sh compatibility again :-> Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-12  2:18   ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-12  4:36     ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12  5:00       ` Zefram
1996-08-12  6:01         ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12  6:34           ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12  6:20       ` Andrej Borsenkow

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