Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:40:00 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ? Message-ID: <54150E10.5040306@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVe83TH-Rj7aPwjHLKWcBEX4ES369FvUzz9nwVuj50qg9A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG=rPVf5z4c6aheCngKy1g-iH8HexAWGQfHoSbtU9D1UC0Pbpg@mail.gmail.com> <541367D1.8090002@FreeBSD.org> <CAG=rPVe83TH-Rj7aPwjHLKWcBEX4ES369FvUzz9nwVuj50qg9A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/14/14, 2:32 AM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Technically, I agree with you that people should write portable shell > scripts, > and use #!/usr/bin/env bash rather than #!/bin/bash. > > Pushing that behavior upstream is not always practical these days, where > FreeBSD is in the minority, while Linux and MacOS X are in the vast > majority of where > people are doing development and learning how to write shell scripts these > days. > > I agree with Craig here. we can keep our code "pure" but the standard shell these days for everyone except us is /bin/bash. There is nothing wrong with FreeSBD deciding that an industry standard should be adopted.. While I don't like it when people code stuff at work in bash instead of sh, I have to admit it has a lot of advantages, and I can't really stop them.. It's getting more and more common so to some extent we should probably hide our pride a bit and look at bash (and maybe vim) and giving them better standard support. mailing the symlink is a really small thing.
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