Hi Paul,
Some time ago, with regard to my bootstrap rewrite, you suggested that the
hoop-jumping I do to find a backslash-friendly echo equivalent on the
host machine was probably overkill nowadays, and that it would be cleaner
to just use `printf '%s\n'` everywhere.
The bs_echo boilerplate in
Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
it looks like doing so effectively deprecates Solaris 7 support
That's fine. Sun (now Oracle) stopped supporting Solaris 7
in August 2008. Even Solaris 8 is fair game now; its end of
support was March 2012. (Solaris 9's end of support will be
in October of this year.)
Hi Paul,
On Jan 2, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
it looks like doing so effectively deprecates Solaris 7 support
That's fine. Sun (now Oracle) stopped supporting Solaris 7
in August 2008. Even Solaris 8 is fair game now; its end of
