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Re: ITP checkbashisms -- Check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 14:41 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> We're not debian, and don't explicitly exclude the use of bashism in
> *ALL* [/usr]/bin/*.sh scripts. Even debian doesn't disallow bashisms i
> *usr*/bin/ scripts -- and as /bin == /usr/bin on cygwin, we can't realy
> distinguish between /bin/*.sh and /usr/bin/*sh. Some of our scripts, in
> fact, have sh-bang lines explicitly requiring bash (e.g. cygport).
>
> So...I'm not sure this is a totally useful tool for cygwin; it might
> lead to unnecessary list traffic:
>
> "Hey, checkbashisms complains about /usr/bin/cygport, please fix..."
>
> I realize this doesn't require votes as it is already in debian, and I
> certainly have no veto power, but if it did require votes I'd be giving
> it a '0' not a '+1'.
You make valid points, but I suppose it would still be useful for
someone writing sh scripts on Cygwin to check their portability to
stricter /bin/sh shells on other systems.
So while I'm hardly overwhelmed by the necessity for adding this
package, its not completely useless on Cygwin either.
Yaakov