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Subject: Re: [PATCH ?] gnu: Add dash.
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:44:00 +0200
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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Hi!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/dash.shm: New file.
> ---
>
> Guix!
>
> IMO this belongs in a (new) shell.scm with fish, tcsh and zsh.
> Maybe bash, too. On the other hand:
>
> Certain shells might have an 'ecosystem' of 'packages', such as
> bash-completion in bash.scm, that might justify leaving them in
> their own file. I'm thinking specifically of zsh here.
>
> I'd suggest merging them all and splitting out if and when needed,
> but prefer to ask the wisdom of the list before doing that tedious
> deed.

I would keep Bash separate, but I agree it=E2=80=99s a good idea to merge t=
he
other ones in one module.

If you want, you could do that and then add Dash to that file?

[...]

> +    (home-page "http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash")
> +    (synopsis "POSIX-compliant shell optimised for size")
> +    (description
> +     "dash is a POSIX-compliant @command{/bin/sh} implementation that ai=
ms to be
> +as small as possible, often without sacrificing speed.  It is significan=
tly
> +faster than the GNU Bourne-Again Shell (@command{bash}) at most tasks.  =
dash is
> +a direct descendant of NetBSD's Almquist Shell (@command{ash}).")
> +    (license (list bsd-3
> +                   gpl2+))))    ; mksignames.c

I=E2=80=99d tend to remove =E2=80=9Csignificantly=E2=80=9D :-), but otherwi=
se LGTM, thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.