On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 11:45 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> IMO, if you intend to work on a fix you should follow the >> suggestion of the bash maintainer to switch over to using >> "printf" - not only for bash but for all cases. Of course >> a fallback may be required. After all according to bash >> maintainer: >> >> "Use of `echo' in portable applications has been deprecated for years." >> >> See: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg02150.html > > Yes, I read that comment. However I'm not prepared to start breaking the > functionality of shells that I never use.
This is a rather strange statement. As a developer you should try to go beyond your personal preferences. Changes to the subshell shall be tested with all supported shells and on as many platforms as possible. >From Chet Ramey's statement it is clear that using printf is the right thing to do. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
