Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:54:08 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/apsfilter Makefile ports/print/apsfilter/files patch-bin::aps2file ports/print/apsfilter/scripts pre-configure Message-ID: <20011218095408.GA1231@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <3C1F0F26.4907FEE@yahoo.co.uk> References: <200112171847.fBHIlbP69769@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011217130555.J72144@bsd.havk.org> <20011217201850.A21347@student.uu.se> <20011217193709.GA85890@lizzy.bugworks.com> <3C1F0F26.4907FEE@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:40:54AM +0000, Oliver Kiddle wrote: > Jos Backus wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:18:50PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > (As I understand it the bash-developers try fairly hard to make sure bash > > > follows the POSIX standard. The zsh developers don't care all that much > > > about it.) > > I am one of the zsh developers and I can tell you that that simply isn't the > case. If you find any case where zsh breaks the POSIX standard then please > let us know and I'll try to get it fixed. It is cared about. Good. Nice to hear. > > Stories of zsh being less than POSIX compliant seem to stem from the fact > that when it isn't pretending to be sh, it fixes some of the design mistakes > of the original Bourne shell (such as word splitting variable expansions). I suspect that my understanding was based on the documentation available when I started using zsh. Since this was a couple of versions ago (zsh v2.x) I guess things have changed. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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