Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:13:11 -0600 From: Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.com> To: Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh is not csh Message-ID: <4193E3F7.9070205@corserv.com> In-Reply-To: <4193E3EF.3030506@criticalmagic.com> References: <200411112237.iABMb6YV001471@corserv.corserv.com> <4193E3EF.3030506@criticalmagic.com>
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Richard Coleman wrote: > > I think the reality is that most people here would rather deal with a > few csh incompatibilities in order to have a much more featureful shell, > rather than use an ancient shell in order to get bug for bug compatibility. I humbly suggest that /bin contain csh and tcsh. Is that too hard? > Writing a shell is hard work (I was involved in zsh development many > years ago). Yes, and writing shell scripts is done to maximize portability. Ie csh is really csh, sh is really sh. That is a lot of work. It would be nice if the base system could be relied upon. Since there are plenty of good third party shells, there > are many other tasks for which FreeBSD developers can better spend their > time. > > Richard Coleman > rcoleman@criticalmagic.com > > >
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