Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:38:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > I don't know; certainly nothing I've ever used :) pinfo autoconf / > > > portable shell mentions it, and seems to be the most canonical source > > > of portability information ... > > > > Yes, if you care about unix systems that are often not even POSIX and > > that everyone stopped using ten years ago. I don't think we need to aim > > at that level of portability (and obfuscation) in debian maintainer > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > I don't know what you mean by this; for sure, adding a single space to > the first line isn't obfuscation. Anyway if you don't like this idea > you can close the report; my interest in this is that it has minimal > cost. It isn't clear to me how much benefit there is.
No, the obfuscation comes in when you make all the other changes to be as portable as the configure script. -- see shy jo
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