bash 3

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

>Hello Ronald,
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Hello Pierre,

>What are the plans to have bash 3 on Cygwin? 
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I've compiled it and rolled up a package as soon as it was released, but 
I haven't had time to test it yet - at all. In any case, it will be 
released as a test package first, but only when I've had at least a 
chance to test it on the one Windows machine I have at my disposal.

>My fixes for the pid reuse problems need to be cleaned
>up, but given that bash 3 is on the horizon I am 
>reluctant to sink any more time in the current version.
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I've been following the discussion but, regrettably, I really don't have 
the time at the moment (the problem being, mostly, that when I do have a 
little time, I only have a Debian Sarge machine.. Things should cool 
down a bit in the following week or so. If they do, I'll try to release 
a bash-2.95b with the patch from Corinna that I still have pending and a 
bash-3.00 with your patch as test.

>It also seems worthwhile to issue a new release of the
>current bash with my patches (at least a test version).
>I have had extra private feedback that they work.
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I agree. The thing I want to be sure of, though, is that things like 
configure scripts etc. still work (I know: they run Ash on Cygwin, but 
still..) - i.e. that there are no compatibility problems between Bash-2 
and Bash-3. Bash is probably the most widely-used Bourne-compatible 
shell out there, so I'm a bit reluctant to just throw the "latest and 
greatest" at the Cygwin community without proper testing..

rlc

NB: I've Cc-ed the -apps list: I guess this should be on-topic there.