Re: [ITA] dash

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:23:04PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>I'd like to provide dash as a cygwin package (it built out of the box, and
>I needed it to investigate a portability problem reported against
>autoconf).  In some respects, dash is faster than bash, but for now, I'm
>happy keeping /bin/sh as bash (not dash), in particular since most
>autoconf scripts will favor bash over dash until dash implements LINENO
>support.
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># setup for dash
>sdesc: "dash shell"
>ldesc: "DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims
>to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed
>where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU
>Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks."
>category: Shells
>requires: cygwin
>#Maintainer: Eric Blake
>
>http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/dash/setup.hint
>http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/dash/dash-0.5.5.1-1.tar.bz2
>http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/dash/dash-0.5.5.1-1-src.tar.bz2

Except for the "requires: cygwin" which isn't needed for Cygwin 1.7, I'd
say go ahead and upload this.  I think you know the drill by now.

cgf