Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Use bash for several contrib scripts

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi Mike,

Mike Bianchi <address@hidden> wrote:

> There is no man page for  sh(1) .
> There is no executable for /bin/sh .  On Debian ...

Sorry if that answer seems blunt, but it is not groff's
problem if the shell is broken in Debian.

> For those reasons, I think  #!/bin/sh  should be outlawed!

Hilarious.  :-D

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

No need to pick, it is already defined by the standard:

  http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sh.html

I doesn't matter at all that i prefer ksh as my login shell
and maybe you prefer bash and some people prefer tcsh.
For portable software, you use sh as defined by POSIX.

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

You may be right that the Universe is chaotic, but regarding
this particular point, there is good order in the Universe.
*If* there is a problem for you, go fix Debian, please.

Yours,
  Ingo