> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 09:50:55 +0200 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Is zsh good for unpacking distributions?
zsh is a very good shell (the "**" feature alone is something to kill for), and it has a sh compatibility mode, so is suitable for every job we need a Unix shell for. Unfortunately, the Windows port is unmaintained, and I found a few bugs in it, one of them blatant and nasty (it didn't know that sh.exe and sh point to the same program, so it didn't invoke sh compatibility mode in some cases). I fixed the blatant bug (long live Free Software!), but found a few more while testing the patched version, and then I ran out of free time. The patched binary works fine for me in simple situations, like building Emacs, and works well with GnuWin32 ports of other utilities; the problems I still need to debug only raise their ugly heads in very complex scripts, like `configure' and `libtool'. I hope to work on the rest of the bugs when I have free time, and then I might upload the result somewhere, because a native Windows port of a Unixy shell is IMHO sorely needed. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
