Theodore Tso wrote: > perl is actually quite portable. Portability aside, Perl has another fun issue. The number of times I've had a Perl script break when copied to a newer system which had a newer version of Perl is... noticable.
> I'd also suggest explicitly add a reminder to the shell scripts' > comments to avoid bashisms for maximum portability, to remind > developers in the future who might try to change the shell scripts > to watch out for portability issues. You can force Bash into POSIX mode if that's helpful. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
