Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:48:13 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, 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, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <200004160248.UAA30122@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:41:19 %2B0200." <20000416024118.A71475@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <20000416024118.A71475@lucifer.bart.nl> <imp@village.org> <20000415231805.33B311CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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In message <20000416024118.A71475@lucifer.bart.nl> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes: : Why sport csh or tcsh in the first place? Because this is BSD. BSD origniated csh and many people expect BSD to have csh of some flavor. : What is the gain versus having it in ports? Make world keeps it up to date. : As I said before, csh/tcsh is not the standard shell needed for : POSIX/SUS(v2) compliance. So? Neither is mergemaster. Yet we have it. That's not the reason csh is in the tree. : Scriptwriters should not depend on its presence, they should be writing : for /bin/sh instead. That's a specious argument. Few people write csh scripts, although some folks do. That's not why we have it in the first place. csh is an interactive shell. : Like I said to David, I have yet to hear a good (counter)argument to the : points I present to support csh or tcsh or any other shell than sh in : the base system. I didn't reply to that because it seemed to be so far from reality that I didn't know how to reply. : This subject is religious and the only way I can envision to quiet : everyone once and for all, is to just remove (t)csh and keep sh in the : base. *VETO* I *STRONGLY* disagree with this. That would make me yell and fuss and scream even louder than the kill it camp. And I don't think I'd be alone. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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