ITP checkbashisms -- Check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb  5 15:36, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 14:41 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > We're not debian, and don't explicitly exclude the use of bashism in 
> > *ALL* [/usr]/bin/*.sh scripts.  Even debian doesn't disallow bashisms i 
> > *usr*/bin/ scripts -- and as /bin == /usr/bin on cygwin, we can't realy 
> > distinguish between /bin/*.sh and /usr/bin/*sh.  Some of our scripts, in 
> > fact, have sh-bang lines explicitly requiring bash (e.g. cygport).
> > 
> > So...I'm not sure this is a totally useful tool for cygwin; it might 
> > lead to unnecessary list traffic:
> > 
> > "Hey, checkbashisms complains about /usr/bin/cygport, please fix..."
> > 
> > I realize this doesn't require votes as it is already in debian, and I 
> > certainly have no veto power, but if it did require votes I'd be giving 
> > it a '0' not a '+1'.
> 
> You make valid points, but I suppose it would still be useful for
> someone writing sh scripts on Cygwin to check their portability to
> stricter /bin/sh shells on other systems.
> 
> So while I'm hardly overwhelmed by the necessity for adding this
> package, its not completely useless on Cygwin either.

None of Jari's packages needs a vote.  All of them need a packaging check,
though...  *hint, hint*


Corinna

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