From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add tcsh. Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 11:34:39 +0100 Message-ID: <201302071134.39503.andreas@enge.fr> References: <5112EF85.707@gmail.com> <201302071029.00313.andreas@enge.fr> <51137DAE.2000601@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_/M4ER42Eq7jZjne" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3OoZ-0004rg-UW for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:34:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3OoW-0004LG-V3 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:34:47 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:60823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3OoW-0004L6-Lk for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:34:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <51137DAE.2000601@gmail.com> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Cyril Roelandt Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org --Boundary-01=_/M4ER42Eq7jZjne Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2013 schrieb Cyril Roelandt: > We could do that, since tcsh is fully compatible with csh, but shouldn't > we rather package csh as well ? The "csh" package in Debian uses sources > from the OpenBSD CVS repository, so we'd need a cvs-fetch method. My impression was that the csh code was not maintained any more. Wikipedia states the following: "On many systems, such as Mac OS X and Red Hat Linux, csh is actually tcsh, an improved version of csh. One file containing the tcsh executable has links to it as both "csh" and "tcsh" so that either name refers to the same improved version of the C shell. On Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives, there are two different packages: csh and tcsh. The former is based on the original BSD version of csh and the latter is the improved tcsh." I am wary about using unmaintained code for which not even a web page with a tarball seems to exist, and would rather opt for the symlink. Andreas --Boundary-01=_/M4ER42Eq7jZjne Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2013 schrieb Cyril Roelandt:

> We could do that, since tcsh is fully compatible with csh, but shouldn't

> we rather package csh as well ? The "csh" package in Debian uses sources

> from the OpenBSD CVS repository, so we'd need a cvs-fetch method.

 

My impression was that the csh code was not maintained any more. Wikipedia states the following:

 

"On many systems, such as Mac OS X and Red Hat Linux, csh is actually tcsh, an improved version of csh. One file containing the tcsh executable has links to it as both "csh" and "tcsh" so that either name refers to the same improved version of the C shell.

On Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives, there are two different packages: csh and tcsh. The former is based on the original BSD version of csh and the latter is the improved tcsh."

I am wary about using unmaintained code for which not even a web page with a tarball seems to exist, and would rather opt for the symlink.

Andreas

 

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