Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] Zsh prompt tests

From: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2014, 15:27 UTC
Message-ID: <5398755B.4050601@bbn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140611011617.GB368384@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

On 2014-06-10 21:16, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:28:46PM -0400, Richard Hansen wrote:
>> On 2014-06-10 16:06, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>>>  zsh --version
>>> zsh 4.3.9 (i386-apple-darwin10.0)
>>
>> zsh 4.3.9 is over 5 years old (2008-11-03).  Is that young enough that
>> we should still try to support it?
> 
> zsh 4.3.10 is the version in RHEL/CentOS 6, and people are still using
> CentOS 5.  At $DAYJOB we build git on both, so it would be nice if at
> least the tests didn't fail.

Looks like CentOS 5 has zsh 4.2.6, so when I rewrite the patch series I'll test zsh versions that are at least that old.

> Skipping them on older versions (maybe using is-at-least) would be
> fine by me.

I don't think we'll need to skip the tests on old zsh versions -- running 'zsh -c' should still work even if 'emulate zsh -c' doesn't.

Thanks, Richard