On Dec 17, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > David R.Morrison wrote: >> As mentioned on the new "preparing for 10.5" page on the fink wiki, >> echo -n is now deprecated in fink. I have edited the vast majority >> of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version. >> Instead of >> >> echo -n "string" >> >> one should now write >> >> /bin/echo "string\c" >> >> (See "man echo".) This makes our use of echo POSIX compliant, and is >> also compatible with current 10.4 usage. > > Just to understand this completely: > > In the future, will /bin/echo also drop support for the -n flag? > Is Apple moving away from BSD? > Or does this concern only the shell builtins?
If you read <http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/> you will see: "Leopard certainly won’t be UNIX in name only. Apple will submit Leopard and Leopard Server to The Open Group for certification against the UNIX ‘03 product standard." So you can probably assume that if there are differences between the UNIX03 spec and bsd, then Apple will probably go with UNIX03. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
