On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ruben Pollan <meskio at sindominio.net> wrote: > On 21:27, Wed 01 Dec 10, Joel Borggr?n-Franck wrote: >> From: Joel Borggr?n-Franck <jbf at codehouse.se> >> >> Change #!/bin/bash at start of tests to "#!/usr/bin/env bash". That way >> systems running on bash < 4 can prepend bash >= 4 to path before >> running the tests. > > Is there any reason to use bash? Is the test system dependent to any key > feature > of bash? > > Not every system has bash installed. To have a dependency on bash just for > development I think is not a big issue. But if it don't requires any big > effort > I think will be better to have it more generic. >
The test harness explicitly requires bash >= 4 . The docs say it needs support for associative arrays. cheers /Joel
