From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] test: make the test suite work with zsh
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:04:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZCd0+MqwYkKBO1DK@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3xVL0UHCHh2Ei=STTx=grkpvUTfj6o9roe3tL35GhG4Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 08:19:08AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > It is my impression, however, that zsh in its native mode is even
> > further out and away, pushing it on the other side of the line of
> > being reasonable to force our develoerps to adjust to.
>
> Just because it's your impression doesn't mean it's true.
Sure, but zsh's incompatibility with bash is clear evidence that it is
further out from the POSIX standard. But I think the argument is missing
the point, anyway, which is that it's incompatible with POSIX.
Is it worth adapting our explicitly POSIX-compatible test suite to work
with a non-POSIX shell? I think not.
Thanks,
Taylor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-01 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-28 17:39 [PATCH 0/6] test: make the test suite work with zsh Felipe Contreras
2023-03-28 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] test: fix build for zsh Felipe Contreras
2023-03-28 17:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] test: avoid `stat` variable Felipe Contreras
2023-03-29 9:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-04-01 0:05 ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-01 0:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-28 17:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] test: avoid `options` variable Felipe Contreras
2023-03-28 17:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] test: avoid `path` variable Felipe Contreras
2023-03-28 17:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] test: hack for zsh Felipe Contreras
2023-03-30 8:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-28 17:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] mergetools: vimdiff: check for empty fields Felipe Contreras
2023-03-29 0:57 ` [PATCH 0/6] test: make the test suite work with zsh brian m. carlson
2023-03-29 1:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-29 9:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-03-29 11:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-30 13:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-29 15:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-29 21:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-30 10:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-30 14:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-01 0:04 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2023-04-01 0:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-01 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-01 2:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-01 0:00 ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-01 0:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-29 22:14 ` brian m. carlson
2023-03-30 3:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-30 7:47 ` Felipe Contreras
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