Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:41:19 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <20000416024118.A71475@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000415231805.33B311CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 04:18:05PM -0700 References: <imp@village.org> <20000415231805.33B311CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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-On [20000416 01:20], Peter Wemm (peter@netplex.com.au) wrote: >IMHO, the way to keep most people happy (or least unhappy :-]) is to finish >the tcsh thing, and change root's shell to /bin/sh and probably change the >default new-user shell to sh as well if it isn't already. Why sport csh or tcsh in the first place? What is the gain versus having it in ports? As I said before, csh/tcsh is not the standard shell needed for POSIX/SUS(v2) compliance. Scriptwriters should not depend on its presence, they should be writing for /bin/sh instead. >I know a lot of people stopped reading the thread fairly early on. Please >refrain from commenting unless you go back and read the thread to >completion - lets not have the same things argued about all over again. >(This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just a general request). I read the whole thread, and posted a summary of it to -arch. Like I said to David, I have yet to hear a good (counter)argument to the points I present to support csh or tcsh or any other shell than sh in the base system. This subject is religious and the only way I can envision to quiet everyone once and for all, is to just remove (t)csh and keep sh in the base. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <asmodai@bart.nl> VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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