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Re: posh setup.hint
Dave <kilroyd-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> writes:
> While updating chere for posh, I came across a couple oddities with
> posh's setup.hint.
>
> Despite being a shell, posh only turns up in the Interpreters category.
> Should it be in Shells so that it's easier to find?
Included now.
> The setup.hint and cygwin announcements refer to posh as 'Almost POSIX
> compliant SHell', whereas the man page refers to it as 'Policy-compliant
> Ordinary SHell'.
The Shell was developed in Debian to test that /etc/init.d scripts would
be POSIX compliant. The few exceptions were those defined in Debian
policy; e.g. the use of 'local' keyword. Thus "Policy-compliant Ordinary
SHell".
The Long desc has been updated in setup.hint
Jari