[indiana-discuss] scope

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Josh Hurst wrote:
>
>> ... /bin/sh needs to be replaced.
>>
>>
>>> and /usr/gnu/bin/sh becomes a symlink to
>>> /bin/bash...  What's wrong with that?
>>
>> It won't help makefiles, users of system() and popen()...
>
>
> Understood. As always, there are tradeoffs either way.
>
> We disagree on which set of tradeoffs is best.
>

I suppose there's also the option of coding (and constantly
maintaining) a version of bash that is fully compatible with
both bash and sh, and making that /bin/sh.

Eric