gEDA-dev: geda naming convention

John Doty jpd at wispertel.net
Mon Dec 10 07:27:57 EST 2007


On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>>>
>> OK; should it be /bin/sh or can it be /bin/bash (ksh compatible)?  
>> sh means
>> it will run everywhere, bash means more structured source (with
>> functions). Of course structured code will start to matter only  
>> when more
>> advanced features would be added.
>
> I'd prefer Dan McMahill to answer this question since he's the  
> master of
> non-Linux unix systems, and could tell you if bash exists on BSD,
> Solaris, etc.
>
> Also, it would be nice to hear from one of our friends who runs on the
> most user-friendly unix of all, Mac OSX.
>
> Dan?  Anybody who runs on Mac?

MacOS 10.4:

[Tanuki:~] jpd% ls /bin/*sh
/bin/bash  /bin/csh  /bin/ksh  /bin/sh  /bin/tcsh  /bin/zsh
>

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd at noqsi.com




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