svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test tools/regression/bin/test

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 11:53:36AM +0200, Alexander wrote:
> The downside is that one may end up writing scripts on FreeBSD which  
> will unexpectedly break on other Unixes.

Exactly.  I also fail to understand why would we want to strive for
compatibility which broken shells (bash) by introducing controversial
features that are not part of any standard and deliberately
undocumented.  This is what usually happens when deprecating stuff, no?
Introducing new functionality in "stealth" mode like this makes little
sense, and I believe does more harm than good.

I recall that it was discussed here on svn-* lists after in was
committed to HEAD, and opinions were mostly negative IMSMR.  I am a bit
surprised it was not backed out (not that it is my call).

./danfe