From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 15 19:20: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from happy.checkpoint.com (happy.checkpoint.com [199.203.156.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3955937B8D3 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by happy.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA18057; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 05:19:31 GMT (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 05:19:31 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: Michael Tackett Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <20000416051931.A17950@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <38F91FAF.E33E0D6E@erinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38F91FAF.E33E0D6E@erinet.com>; from mtackett@erinet.com on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 10:04:31PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 10:04:31PM -0400, Michael Tackett wrote: > Second, what's wrong with tcsh? I use it, I like it. I understand that > there are syntactical differences with the sh/ksh/bash and csh/tcsh that > cause a problem, but I'm willing to tolerate that. One of the beauties > of open source/free unices is choice in my opinion, so why lock people > into one shell (or desktop or database or OS)? tcsh, like a number of other shells, has been available since forever by doing cd /usr/ports/shells/tcsh && make install. Importing it into the tree is a completely different matter and signals that it's a part of the base FreeBSD distribution. I simply don't see any significant reason for it to be there. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message