From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Apr 15 8:54:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938CA37B852 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:54:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA21127 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:54:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA12511 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:54:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6714C37B852 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01104 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:54:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:54:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: tcsh import comments Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So far I don't see any problem with the import. We now have a csh-centric shell that: o Has a far more flexible and user-centric interface (not just for scripts) o Provides strong backwards compatibility with our existing csh (we should do some in-depth tests to confirm this) o Provides stronger locale support than csh or sh, improving support for localization in the base FreeBSD OS At this point, I'd prefer to see tcsh attached to the build tree as /bin/tcsh for compatibility with the BSD/OS source base, and /bin/csh retained for portability until we've managed to do a thorough script interop. Give that our sh is not exactly a boring and straight-laced line-mode shell (set -o emacs), I think it makes sense for us to update our csh also. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message