On 2009-07-25 09:53:06 +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > What's the advantage of having it be zsh? Is zsh faster than > > > dash? Or is the only savings the elimination of the 84k dash > > > binary from /bin? > > > It allows all the #!/bin/sh scripts that us zsh-isms to run. > > They can already be run under #!/bin/zsh. Why would we want to tie > our hands even further as a distribution by putting ourselves in the > position of having end users deploying /bin/sh scripts that require > zsh, *in addition* to the end users who already deploy /bin/sh > scripts that require bash?
I don't know what Manoj had in mind exactly, but he hasn't said that zsh would be required. Think about something like that: #!/bin/sh if test -n "$ZSH_VERSION"; then foo="$HOME:t" else foo="..." <- slower version for generic POSIX shells fi -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
