bash 3

[Reini Urban]

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak schrieb:
> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> What are the plans to have bash 3 on Cygwin?  
>>
> I've compiled it and rolled up a package as soon as it was released, but 
> I haven't had time to test it yet - at all. In any case, it will be 
> released as a test package first, but only when I've had at least a 
> chance to test it on the one Windows machine I have at my disposal.

What about the debugger?
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdb/

He renamed it now to rebash, has most of the CYGWIN fixes in.
My bash-2.05b-rebash-0.43-1.patch is 5KB, opposed to the 640KB patch for 
2.05b-16.
Just the pid reuse problem is not yet applied.
3.0 is far away for me.

Should I propose it as "bashdb"? Just some more testing has to be done.
And a way to save and restore the orginal version on request.
Or should I wait for a 3.0 debugger version?

His make debugger also looks cool (remake-3.80+dbg-0.2)

>> My fixes for the pid reuse problems need to be cleaned
>> up, but given that bash 3 is on the horizon I am reluctant to sink any 
>> more time in the current version.
>>
> I've been following the discussion but, regrettably, I really don't have 
> the time at the moment (the problem being, mostly, that when I do have a 
> little time, I only have a Debian Sarge machine.. Things should cool 
> down a bit in the following week or so. If they do, I'll try to release 
> a bash-2.95b with the patch from Corinna that I still have pending and a 
> bash-3.00 with your patch as test.
> 
>> It also seems worthwhile to issue a new release of the
>> current bash with my patches (at least a test version).
>> I have had extra private feedback that they work.
>>
> I agree. The thing I want to be sure of, though, is that things like 
> configure scripts etc. still work (I know: they run Ash on Cygwin, but 
> still..) - i.e. that there are no compatibility problems between Bash-2 
> and Bash-3. Bash is probably the most widely-used Bourne-compatible 
> shell out there, so I'm a bit reluctant to just throw the "latest and 
> greatest" at the Cygwin community without proper testing..
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/