From owner-cvs-ports Thu Jan 2 02:12:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA26437 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 02:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from franc.ucdavis.edu (franc.ucdavis.edu [128.120.8.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA26424; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 02:12:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com by franc.ucdavis.edu (8.8.4/UCD3.8.4) id CAA14153; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 02:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) id CAA03036; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 02:12:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 02:10:28 -0800 From: obrien@dragon.nuxi.com (David O'Brien) To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: deobrien@ucdavis.edu, ache@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/shells/bash/pkg PLIST ports/shells/bash Makefile ports/shells/bash/files md5 ports/shells/bash/patches patch-aa patch-ab patch-ac patch-ad patch-ae References: <199701020620.WAA27536@baloon.mimi.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.54-PL15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: deobrien@ucdavis.edu X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 In-Reply-To: <199701020620.WAA27536@baloon.mimi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Jan 1, 1997 22:20:08 -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Satoshi Asami writes: > * After trying Bash 2.0, I think maybe we should leave the 1.14 port around > * for awhile too. They have changed several vars such as OSTYPE and > > I'll have to agree with this too. It is now much pickier with the > syntax (e.g., "function foo () { bar }" is not allowed anymore, and it > prints out a totally uninformative error message about missing if or > something), it is going to be a rough ride for awhile. > > I'll do the repository copy and roll back this one to the previous > version. Can we keep Bash 2.0 around for those that don't have as much legacy stuff as we do? Kinda like the fvwm ports, we could also have "bash2". For people starting new with Bash, no reason to hold them back because of us guys. -- -- David (deobrien@ucdavis.edu)