Re: KISS'ed shell

Lennart Borgman wrote, quoting Marc Chantreux:
>> I think the lake of open source sh is a real problem so if i had more 
>> time to spend for a windows shell , i would try to port dash (as 
>> minimalist sh replacement, it can be easier to port than bash). If i 
was 
>> really skilled, i would try to port zsh (wich is much powerfull than 
bash).

You are, of course, entitled to that opinion.  Personally, I consider
bash to be *more* than powerful enough :-)

> There is an old port of zsh (or maybe was, I am not sure I can find it 
> now). Yes, a unix style shell would makes things easier for those 
> working on multiple platforms or porting software in either direction.

Which is exactly why those of us who engage in such porting activity
use Cygwin or MinGW+MSYS.  AFAIK, Kees uses MinGW+MSYS to build the
GnuWin32 packages; no doubt, he will correct me if I'm wrong.

In fact, if you are serious about code portability, then you really
*must* eschew *all* of those fancy extended shell features of zsh, and
even of bash or ksh.  The only `given', on which you may depend, is that
a traditional, (and basic), Bourne Shell is available, and you *must*
write all shell code to run with that least common denominator.

Regards,
Keith.

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