On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:03:29PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:00:43PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:Clint, what is your take on this? Do we want to ask this question with a low priority? I don't know how I feel about touching something as important as this manually.In the past, there was at least one incompatibility (that could have been worked around with a shell function). I don't know how suitable zsh is as a Debian /bin/sh right now, and I'm not sure we want to support that (the only compelling benefit I could see is having zsh be the only shell on your system, which is currently impossible anyway).
That's why I filed it as a wishlist bug. If there are known incompatibilities, you might want to block this bug with the appropriate bug numbers.
Brian, are you using zsh as /bin/sh already, with a manual symlink change? If so, have you run into any problems?
No, I'm not. I understand that grml (a live CD distribution based on Debian) set zsh as /bin/sh for some time, and did find a few bugs. See <http://grml.org/faq/#zsh_binsh>. Mac OS X used to do it as well. I just performed the symlink change and I'll let you know what does and doesn't work. I'll certainly file wishlist bugs if I encounter any problems. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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