‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, May 13, 2021 5:02 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 5/13/21 10:31 AM, Adjudicator Darren wrote: > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:25 PM, Chet Ramey chet.ra...@case.edu wrote: > > > > > On 5/13/21 9:11 AM, Adjudicator Darren wrote: > > > > > > > What's the bug? this: > > > > > > It's a work in progress. > > > > I would use the master branch but apparently there are certain old things > > that only exist on 'devel' branch and so my old patches won't apply on > > 'master'. > > What does this mean? The devel branch is always newer than master. > > Would you recommend that I avoid 'devel' anyway? > > The devel branch is what it claims to be: the development work on bash. If > you want to use it -- and I encourage people to use it to find bugs as we > go along -- you have to accept occasional instability. I appreciate you > using it and reporting this. > > Right now, the devel branch is undergoing a series of multiple commits to > fix issues with array subscript expansion. That's what I mean about a work > in progress. Understood. Thank you for the clarity. For some reason I expected no instability(my bad), but I can see now why that was unreasonable of me, after all it is all in the name: 'devel'. Best of luck in all endeavors. Cheers. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > `The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer`Ars longa, vita > brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
