Suckless sh [Was: Re: [dev] New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings, Patrick Haller wrote: On 2011-09-25 03:19, Christoph Lohmann wrote: ocaml;wu (ocaml; won't use) use the bringer_obsolete.bash [1] from the package? why ocaml;wu? because it's outside the C/sh stack, or ? in the first ecumenical council of the suckless church, C and sh were

Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: [dev] New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:07:52 +0200 Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: All we need is a better syntax for sh, This should be doable in the size of dash. Rc does not fit very well, because it is missing mass adoption and has some ugliness in the various implementations across Plan 9 and

[dev] Re: Suckless sh

2011-09-25 Thread Troels Henriksen
Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm writes: Anyone know why ghc is that big? I'm having trouble figuring it out. It bundles a large amount of libraries, and probably duplicate versions with profiling data as well. A self-contained GHC build (as created after compiling and prior to

[dev] Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm writes: It's redirection and the behaviour of cp mv when the last arg is a dir that bother me, in rc. What has the behavior of cp and mv to do with the shell used? rc's redirection syntax is remarkably clean and powerful, but it shouldn't be very hard

Re: [dev] Re: Suckless sh [Was: Re: New utility]

2011-09-25 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:17:23 +0200 Christian Neukirchen chneukirc...@gmail.com wrote: Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm writes: It's redirection and the behaviour of cp mv when the last arg is a dir that bother me, in rc. What has the behavior of cp and mv to do with the shell