Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:53:42 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash port Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051553420.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4665E333.8050506@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Doug Barton wrote: > Brian wrote: >> Looks like a bash version change occurred? > > Yes, about 3 years ago. :) > > The shells/bash port is now bash 3, and bash 2 has been removed since > bash 3 has all the same features, plus cool new stuff. > > hth, > > Doug Honestly the only thing better in bash 2 compared to bash 3 is the footprint (I found bash 2 to be a lot better than bash 3 on a 133 MHz box with 128 MB of RAM) that I was compiling things on ><, but then again I'm sure bash 2 is going to be full of bugs and security issues soon, since it's the non-current source branch now. -Garrett
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