Donnie Berkholz wrote:
On 21:28 Wed 21 Jan , Jeremy Olexa wrote:
Can we get a consensus on bash version in the tree? this thread[1] is
unresolved. I understand that the PMS draft is not set in stone (or
something), but please...let's progress and update the spec[2]. I feel
that this makes it hard for other projects relying on Gentoo to do some
things without being able to *know* what version of bash is allowed.
Which projects relying on Gentoo are having a hard time? It's helpful to
know the impact of a problem when deciding what to do about it.
Well.. pet projects, nothing major really.
However,
In Gentoo Prefix, I found the issue in the original post on the other
thread because my host system had bash-3.0 on it so I wanted to save a
lengthy compile on an obscure platform. If Gentoo specs say "bash-3.X is
guarenteed to work" then it is simple to say that we require that the
user compiles this version while bootstrapping a new Prefix. Otherwise,
its a mystery what works. Some platforms that I bootstrap on have
bash-2.05 and it would be nice to *know* what I should upgrade to.
I think the spec should just be upgraded because it isn't exactly
obvious to the casual dev what is a 3.0 feature vs 3.1, etc. We already
have 3.1 features in the tree, I'm not sure where the red tape is here.
