John Cotton Ericson wrote:
On 9/25/23 10:24, Zack Weinberg wrote:
It is ultimately ldv's call, but Jacob's experiment is not good enough
for me to approve.
So I saw Jacob's research as not demonstrating using functions is
*definitely* OK, but that has indicating it *might* be OK. Does
Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, at 9:49 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
I further argue that alternate output modes should only be supported
at config.sub; config.guess should always produce the current hyphen-
delimited tuple format.
That would preclude autoconf using the new fo
>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, at 10:57 AM, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
>>> Sure. If they show up, we can definitely revert it. But what happens
>>> if they *don't* show up? What do you think in that case?
>>>
>> How long are you prepared to stick to your position? How many angry
>> e- mails are you prepa
On 9/25/23 11:06, Zack Weinberg wrote:
For clarity, I was talking about the overhead of
_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL, not the overhead of functions themselves.
Great!
It is unclear to me whether bourne-ish shells that were new in March
13 1992 that still didn't support shell functions, or whether
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, at 10:57 AM, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
> On 9/25/23 10:24, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> It is ultimately ldv's call, but Jacob's experiment is not good
>> enough for me to approve.
>>
> So I saw Jacob's research as not demonstrating using functions is
> *definitely* OK, but that
On 9/25/23 10:24, Zack Weinberg wrote:
It is ultimately ldv's call, but Jacob's experiment is not good enough
for me to approve.
So I saw Jacob's research as not demonstrating using functions is
*definitely* OK, but that has indicating it *might* be OK. Does that
sound better?
The thing i
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, at 9:49 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> I further argue that alternate output modes should only be supported
> at config.sub; config.guess should always produce the current hyphen-
> delimited tuple format.
That would preclude autoconf using the new format. We don't want to
hav
On Fri, Sep 22, 2023, at 5:14 PM, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
> On 9/21/23 22:31, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>>
>>> Um. I don't think you can use shell functions in this file (or in
>>> config.guess), for the same reason you can't use $(...).
>>
>> It may be worth noting that th
