Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:01:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004062201.PAA18343@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000406144502.A25177@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Apr 06, 2000 02:45:02 PM
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> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:21:07PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > 2) FreeBSD's base installation is *NOT* intended for you to have a > > completely/fully functional workstaion. > > I don't want a fully functional workstation. I want a root account that > is useful. I am also tired of explaining to Linux users why our /bin/csh > doesn't have as nice a UI as tcsh. After you are done, then you can have them explain to you why their shell scripts that run on Linux's "/bin/sh" don't run on other UNIX systems. I think putting in tcsh as csh would be putting FreeBSD in the same position of having a shell where script authors think they are using features which are available everywhere, but are specific to the "enhanced" shell, and will therefore only run on systems where "/bin/csh" is replaced with tcsh. Further, there is the PicoBSD issue. I think doing this would be as heinous a crime as replacing "/bin/ls" with colorls. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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