Re: [bug #18136] MC wont work with new bash-3.2 propeply with all directories.

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> >
> > > > Yes, I read that comment. However I'm not prepared to start breaking the
> > > > functionality of shells that I never use.
> > >
> > > This is a rather strange statement. As a developer you should try to
> > > go beyond your personal preferences. Changes to the subshell shall be
> > > tested with all supported shells and on as many platforms as possible.
> > > > From Chet Ramey's statement it is clear that using printf is the right
> > > thing to do.
> >
> > That's his statement.  Jim Meyering's comment is more reasonable.
>
> His comment is related to coreutils and not bash. Anyway, he still
> agrees that "printf" should be used. If this is the way to go why
> shall we wait ?

He's recommending it for new scripts, not recommending that one rewrite 
existing scripts (and by noting that other shells retain the existing 
treatment, is pointing out a problem).

Anyway - perhaps 3.3 (I'm seeing too many reports of syntax errors in 
existing scripts to bother with 3.2.x).

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