dash vs. ash?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 10 10:38:00 GMT 2009


On Jul 10 10:37, Robert Klemme wrote:
> All,
> 
> I just notice that there is dash in cygwin 1.7 but there is also ash.
> What would be the reason to switch from ash to dash?  From what I am
> finding on the web it seems, dash was basically ash code modernized.
> So it seems when on 1.7 dash would be the preferred one.  Any insight?

I think dash is preferred in future.  In theory we should dash hardlink
to ash and deprecate the ash package entirely.  It's about time.  Eric?


Corinna

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