To Werner and the rest of our Windows developers: My Debian Lenny bash version is
ir...@raven> bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. My recent experiences with MSYS-bash under Wine have been good. It's version is bash.exe-3.1$ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. That version is two years older than the Lenny version and basically reflects the conservatism of the MSYS project about adopting new releases. But the important point is it is still bash 3. In comparison, win-bash is a port of bash 1 (!) (actually version 1.14.2) to Windows NT that has been adjusted in the many years since to the newer Windows platforms without adding functionality. In fact, win-bash was so old and missing so much functionality that we had to do a lot of screwing around with the test scripts to get win-bash to work with them at all. In the Wiki should we be suggesting MSYS-bash rather than win-bash to all our advanced Windows users who want to test their installation? If you guys see no practical limitations to that idea, I will make the appropriate wiki changes. MSYS has a lot of mind share in the Windows developer community in any case so switching our recommendation from win-bash to MSYS-bash may be an easy sell. The advantage to us of this change is that if we switch our Windows testers from winbash to MSYS-bash, that will put many fewer constraints on any future test script changes we might want to make. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
