Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 22:49:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> 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, cvs-all@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000415224434.908E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20000415231805.33B311CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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Peter, I general I agree with your summary, but would like to object changing the root shell at this point. I'd also like to throw in that I think moving towards a shell with decent locality support is a good idea--sh does not have this right now, so I'd object to switching to sh until we get localization support for error messages. I may be wrong in my reading of the source, but it looks like tcsh comes out of the box with support for messages in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Could someone comment on the current localization status of both our current sh, and any other proposed alternatives for a root shell? I admit I come at this as a csh person who would really prefer to see csh continue to be the root shell (maximizing consistency from the perspective of documentation :-), but I think localization and internationalize are important issues in UI-centric changes such as this. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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