On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:07:13AM +0100, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> If you still want to do an OpenBSD port I'll be happy to help. I have a work
> mate who is a big fan of OpenBSD, and is actually the auther of the 'Book of
> PF', a very nice book on using OpenBSD as a firewall. An OpenBSD port of
> fish might convince him to switch shells. :)

OK, I haven't done much since. I was kind of wondering if fish was still
being maintained :)

> About the getopt issue, I would say that using the bsd getopt without
> gnu-style options should be ok. The reason for this is that somewhere around
> 99 % of all the option parsing in fish is done on fish builtins, not on fish
> or any other proper binaries. And fish builtins use an internal getopt
> implementation, since there exists no library to parse options that are wide
> character strings, and fish uses wide character strings internally.

OK, I will get the development version of fish and remove all the
'GNUish' call to getopt. Don't expect the patch anytime soon though, I
will be pretty busy for a while.


Cheers,

-- 
  Henry PrĂȘcheur

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