On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Matthew Geddes wrote:
I'd probably suggest that we'd wait at least until bash 3.0 comes as part of most stock distributions. Same goes for 2.6 kernel-related stuff and anything else we test that changes :-)
Umm, yes, that is the easy part. This WILL catch on, the only question is how fast. My query is when does it reach the point of being included in our tests? When Debian gets it in stable (in which case we need not rush) or when Fedora or Gentoo uses it as the default (in which case it may come quickly indeed.) What if one or two distros like it and another hates it? Then again, does that matter or should we be focussing on how employers feel about using it? How would we know?
This piques my interest only because adding the changes to regular expressions will be a big deal for a sysadmin. Perhaps many will return to using shell scripts for complex regular expressions and less perl (for example).
Mark Miller Level One Project Lead _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
