Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:13:13 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <200004152113.PAA28692@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:23:15 %2B0200." <1210.955826595@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <1210.955826595@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <1210.955826595@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : I didn't quite feel it like a concensus either, did anyone keep : a score-board ? From my reading, there were two issues. One was tcsh and the second was root account. The second issue was fairly unanimous: Don't change root's default shell's name (despite some pleas from one or two people to do so). The first issue was unclear. People generally argued against this due to size, but said they'd be happy enough with a port of the older csh. This was especially true amoung the embedded folks that posted. There was some minor desire to make sure that there were no scripts that were broken by this, as well as some desire to make sure that a csh compatible set of .cshrc for tcsh could be done. The scripting compatibility issue remaining open, iirc. The .cshrc issue mostly was resolved in the exchange between David (I think) and Rod Grimes (for sure) about the nits of hitting escape vs hitting tab. Given that this was about as clear a consensus as I think I've seen in a while on an emotional issue, I think that David did the right thing and continue to support it. With one caveat: If it turns out that this breaks a lot of people, then we back it out. We have about a year until 4.0 comes out, so we'll have plenty of time to find those people who it breaks, if any. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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