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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:06:24 +1100
From:      Christopher Vance <christopher@nu.org>
To:        Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com>, Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcsh fix
Message-ID:  <20041116050624.GG88973@anembo.nu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041112031122.GA87071@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <41940880.7070409@corserv.com> <20041112023023.GG19417@silverwraith.com> <20041112031122.GA87071@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:11:22AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>Personally I am of the opinion that csh (all versions) should be
>removed completely from the base system and relegated entirely to the
>ports system. Other than historical reasons there is not much point in
>having it in the base system.

I agree.  Please.

OpenBSD's standard sh is a well-maintained pdksh, and is really nice -
significantly nicer than the pdksh version in ports, and much nicer
than the bash that got foisted on me at my last job or the csh I got
stuck with many jobs before that.

-- 
Christopher Vance



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