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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: ash (was: Re: Elm fixed easily for 386bsd)
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Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
References: <CONKLIN.93Mar3140546@ngai.kaleida.com> <6493@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <C3oJnI.H8s@sugar.neosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 21:40:55 GMT
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In article <C3oJnI.H8s@sugar.neosoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>In article <6493@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
>>I'm currently working on a backquote/quoting bug that is causing
>>problems in c-news' subst script.  Hopefully, I can finish it off
>>tonight.
>
>Note that "bash" does not suffer from this problem.  And with it as /bin/sh
>cnews pretty much compiles and runs.

There are two problems with this:

1)	bash isn't exactly sh compatable.  ash will be once all the bugs
	are all (mostly) fixed.

2)	bash is GPL'ed.  Not to get into a war about "The Way It Should Be",
	"The Way It Is" allows us to produce a binary-only system without
	sources to everything but the developement system, arguably a
	piece that can be left out of an end-user system.  Including bash
	would break this.

As far as I'm concerned, ignoring the bugs in ash simply because bash
exists is not the way to go.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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