Dash as default shell

[Balint Szigeti]

On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 12:07 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On 10/02/2014 11:25 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 10:58 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> On 10/02/2014 10:32 AM, Balint Szigeti wrote:
> >> > hello
> >> >
> >> > Don't we consider using zsh?
> >>
> >> I'd rather not. Thoughout its history, zsh has had lots of issues
> >> originating from limitations, bugs and incompatibilities.
> > hm... Interesting, I and my colleague use zsh and we don't have problem
> > with it.
> > Can you give some examples?
> Well, check autoconf's and automake's history of ca. the last 5 years. 
> There have been a quite some patches been added to work around zsh issues ;)
> 
> One case I am currently aware about is this:
> 
> # cat script
> SUBDIRS="a b  c"
> list=${SUBDIRS}; for subdir in $list; do
> echo $subdir
> done
> 
> # /bin/bash script
> a
> b
> c
> 
> Same result for dash and ksh, but for zsh:
> # /bin/zsh script
> a b  c
> 

Indeed. The zsh doesn't print the newline character after every entry.

> >> I don't know about the current situation, but e.g., the configure
> >> scripts I just posted the timings of for for bash and dash fail with zsh.
> > Which script do you mean?
> 
> I was referring to the files I used in 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-October/202891.html
> 
> AFAICT so far, it fails because of behavioral difference between zsh and 
> bash/ksh/dash outlined above (the "script" example).
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 


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