another thing here, with the .sh files you also are able to run it with cygwin tools for windows. :) For all those poor guys having to use windows and still want to be able to use the powerfull shell :)
2011/11/30 Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> > Well, I'd object tomcat does the same, and afaik, I've never heard it > was a problem. > > I think not having the suffix ".sh" is fine when you only have unix > binaries. If you mix both in the same distribution, having different > extensions makes things more intuitive / homogeneous imho > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 16:07, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm more -1 to it. It really is against normal unix conventions to do > it. > > A user shouldn't need to know if an executable is a shell script, a perl > > script, python, executable, etc... That's all that the .sh really does. > > > > I just checked my /usr/bin directory and 560 of the 2758 "executables" in > > there are really shell scripts. Only 16 of them have a .sh extension. > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:20:00 AM Guillaume Nodet wrote: > >> Originally, the distribution did not contain both unix and windows > >> files (there are 2 different distributions in 2.x), but given we now > >> have a single distribution containing both files, it seems to me a bit > >> more homogeneous to have ".bat" for windows batches and ".sh" for unix > >> scripts. > >> So I'm *slightly* inclined to rename those, but that's not really a > >> big problem to me. If it can help some users, why not .... > >> > >> Jean-Baptiste, do you see any problem with renaming those files apart > >> from the fact that it's not really necessary on unix (so I do agree > >> that it's not a requirement). > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 05:25, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Hi Andres, > >> > > >> > My comments: > >> > > >> > 1/ the windows script as .bat extension because it's a requirement on > >> > Windows > >> > 2/ the important thing is the header (#!/bin/sh) in the unix script > more > >> > than the extension. > >> > 3/ it's really important, for portability, to use /bin/sh (which allow > >> > us to use with bash, zsh on Linux, csh and ksh on Solaris/AIX) more > >> > than /bin/bash > >> > > >> > I don't see a good reason to rename to karaf.sh, karaf looks very good > >> > for me. > >> > > >> > Regards > >> > JB > >> > > >> > On 11/30/2011 05:21 AM, Andreas Pieber wrote: > >> >> Hey guys, > >> >> > >> >> I want to start a discussion about this JIRA here on the dev list: > TBH > >> >> I'm personally quite indifferent but if we want to change this we > >> >> should do it now for 3.0 or otherwise it wont happen for quite a long > >> >> time (till 4.0). > >> >> > >> >> So, WDYT? > >> >> > >> >> Kind regards, > >> >> Andreas > >> >> > >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> >> From: Andrei Pozolotin (Created) (JIRA)<[email protected]> > >> >> Date: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 23:45 > >> >> Subject: [jira] [Created] (KARAF-1060) use bash file extenstions: > >> >> karaf -> karaf.sh > >> >> To: [email protected] > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> use bash file extenstions: karaf -> karaf.sh > >> >> -------------------------------------------- > >> >> > >> >> Key: KARAF-1060 > >> >> URL: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-1060 > >> >> Project: Karaf > >> >> Issue Type: Bug > >> >> Reporter: Andrei Pozolotin > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> currently, windows /bin files have extensions, such as > >> >> karaf.bat > >> >> > >> >> but unix, do not: > >> >> karaf > >> >> > >> >> I suggest to use, instead: > >> >> karaf.sh > >> >> > >> >> so that I can associate *.sh with bash editors like this > >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/shelled/ > >> >> > >> >> :-) > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > >> >> If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > >> >> administrators: > >> >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.js > >> >> pa > >> >> For more information on JIRA, see: > >> >> http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira> > >> > -- > >> > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://blog.nanthrax.net > >> > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > -- > > Daniel Kulp > > [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog > > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com > > > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet > ------------------------ > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------ > Open Source SOA > http://fusesource.com > -- Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & Project Lead blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/>
