[ITP] shellsupport-1.2.4-1

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
> > I want to maintain shellsupport, a simple (bourne) shell scripting 
> > support helper. It is a commandline C program that provides those 
> > features I miss when writing portable shell scripts, 
> because they are 
> > not covered by other portable (Posix 1003.2) tools.
> >
> > http://www.cons.org/cracauer/shellsupport.html
> > [snip]
> 
> Hmm, I don't see much need for a package like this in Cygwin, 
> frankly, as most of the functionality *can* be accomplished 
> using existing means.
> See below.
> 
[snip]

That was my reaction as well.  I didn't really see anything that wasn't so
specialized that if you needed it, it was unreasonable to expect some
package to do it for you (i.e. arg permutation).

Reini, what exactly are the "features [you] miss" here?

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle