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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-25 23:30, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-01-25 20:33, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> Platforms: currently only Posix
>>>>
>>>      Nitpick: it is more restricted than that. Platform is currently
>>> only posix *with bash shell*. A lot of people use other shells,
>>> including non-Bourne shells (most frequent are zsh, ksh and tcsh).
>>>
>>>          Jerome
>>
>> Yeah, I guess you're right, didn't think there were a lot people who
>> used other shells. Since I almost know nothing about shell scripting and
>> even less about non-bourne shells, will it be possible to port to other
>> shells? How much do they differ?
>>
> 	Well, for other Bourne shells (like zsh or ksh), it will probably
> mostly be a question of putting the initialization code in the right
> file (i.e. .zshrc or .kshrc). Other than that, unless you are doing
> something pretty fancy, the same code should work.
>
> 	For C-shells (like tcsh) the syntax is pretty different, so it will
> probably require more changes. However, it has been a while since I
> last used tcsh, so I cannot tell you how much work it would be.
>
> 		Jerome

Ok.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg