Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Dec 24, 2005, 23:44 UTC
Message-ID: <43ADDD6F.7010502@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vwthus7gr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
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>>The fact that there are 39 bash'ish shell-scripts does little to help a 
>>native port...
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> Can you defend that "bash'ism" comment for all 39?  The one I
> know of and would want to get rid of its bashism by rewriting is
> git-grep, but most of them I thought was plain POSIX.
>

Not really, no. I meant "there are 39 shell-scripts known to work with bash but not necessarily known to fail with any other shell", which usually means "it will break with some shell or other, although the shell that breaks is unusual enough for everyone not to have tested it yet". I'm probably being a bit super-anal and anti-MS biased.

I wrote the first mail being terribly hung over and this one being slightly tipsy. I now get the feeling that everything will work out for the best. Happy christmas everyone.

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