cvs commit: CVSROOT modules ports/shells Makefilepkg-install patch-bashline.c patch-builtins_shopt.def patch-config-bot.h ...

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Aug 11 09:14:46 PDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:11, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:04, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >> P.S. My recommendation is to kill both bash1 and bash2, repo-copy bash3
> >> into just bash and remove bash3 as well.
> >
> > Actually, we can't do that.  In order to preserve all histories, we
> > should delete bash2 and bash3, and update bash to 3.0....that is, if
> > that's what all the maintainers agree to.
> 
> Since there never has been a shells/bash port (only shells/bash1) we can 
> do a repocopy bash3 -> bash.

Sorry, I missed the fact that bash 1.x was bash1 and not just bash.

>  When you think repocopying bash3 -> bash is 
> a good idea, just do it.

I don't use bash, so I'll leave it up to those that know.

>  I'm fine with deleting bash1, but I think we 
> should keep bash2 around a little longer, unfortunately the bugs in the 
> .0 release seem not to be purely hypothetical. Anyway, this should 
> mostly affect complex bash scripts, not interactive usage. We we do the 
> repocopy we should fix the LATEST_LINKs of both ports.

Just file the PR, and the copy will be done.

Joe

> 
> -Oliver
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