[BusyBox] Re: which shell?

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Aug 07, 2001 at 08:15:50AM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> Erik said:
> > ash, msh, and lash are certain to have a long life in busybox.
> > I really like hush, but I am not as certain of its future,
> 
> It's on my list, but my list is pretty long.

BTW, I didn't say that to slight hush in any way...  I know you have
put a ton of time into it (as have I).  But neither of us have had the
time to work on it of late, and it has some problems at the moment.  As
you said, to make it handle loops and functions would take some major
reworking...


> That's both true and false.  There are indeed dramatic differences
> between them, but some of that is fluff.  I think we (the
> maintainers) would benefit if some or all of the shells shared a
> common library of variable handling and tty handling.  Just like they
> share Vladimir's

That would be helpful...  I can certainly see the variable handleing,
and many of the builtins being pulled into a common layer in the short
term,

 -Erik

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