[Groff] Fwd: Re: <OK> Re: [PATCH] Use bash for several contrib scripts

[Daode]

(blush) really nice bicycles..

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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:49:27 -0500
From: Mike Bianchi <address@hidden>
To: Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Use bash for several contrib scripts

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:03:48PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>       :
> Imho it is a bug that the generated scripts
> use /bin/sh but are not compatible to a real /bin/sh.

I _strongly_ agree.
There is no man page for  sh(1) .
There is no executable for /bin/sh .  On Debian ...
          ls -l /bin/sh
        lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar  1  2012 /bin/sh -> dash*

And the man page for  dash(1)  says it does not conform to a documented
standard.

        The current version of dash is in the process of being changed to
        conform with the POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.2a specifications for the shell.
                :
        Only features designated by POSIX, plus a few Berkeley extensions,
        are being incorporated into this shell.

        This man page is not intended to be a tutorial or a complete
        specification of the shell.

For those reasons, I think  #!/bin/sh  should be outlawed!
(Yeah, right.  That's going to happen.)

Still, within the groff project, could we pick one shell to be the standard?

Or am I trying to inflict order on an unorderly universe?

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