From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:17:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code
Message-ID: <dbfc82860701290517p739c78a1td05fd0900e280515@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <86fy9udmf6.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On 1/29/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> Nikolai> We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?
>
> OK, sorry for raising the flag.  I just know that writing portable shell
> is far trickier than writing portable Perl, so I get overly cautious
> on anything that wasn't in Unix V7.

No problem; I wasn't sure on the current requirements myself :-).
It's too bad that not all the great stuff one can find in Bash and Zsh
were in the original...

  nikolai