[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: new bug introduced by 'devel' commit 35bc7025c1db5078eb157eea7c04367
From: |
Adjudicator Darren |
Subject: |
Re: new bug introduced by 'devel' commit 35bc7025c1db5078eb157eea7c0436754ac91aa3 |
Date: |
Thu, 13 May 2021 15:07:17 +0000 |
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, May 13, 2021 5:02 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 5/13/21 10:31 AM, Adjudicator Darren wrote:
>
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > On Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:25 PM, Chet Ramey chet.ramey@case.edu wrote:
> >
> > > On 5/13/21 9:11 AM, Adjudicator Darren wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's the bug? this:
> > >
> > > It's a work in progress.
> >
> > I would use the master branch but apparently there are certain old things
> > that only exist on 'devel' branch and so my old patches won't apply on
> > 'master'.
>
> What does this mean? The devel branch is always newer than master.
>
> Would you recommend that I avoid 'devel' anyway?
>
> The devel branch is what it claims to be: the development work on bash. If
> you want to use it -- and I encourage people to use it to find bugs as we
> go along -- you have to accept occasional instability. I appreciate you
> using it and reporting this.
>
> Right now, the devel branch is undergoing a series of multiple commits to
> fix issues with array subscript expansion. That's what I mean about a work
> in progress.
Understood. Thank you for the clarity.
For some reason I expected no instability(my bad), but I can see now why that
was unreasonable of me, after all it is all in the name: 'devel'.
Best of luck in all endeavors.
Cheers.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> `The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer`Ars longa, vita
> brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/