[Linux-ha-dev] Re: cronjobs v1.2 rc1 OCF resource agent now available

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:00:52AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2008-07-15T15:18:26, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > There's a tool in Debian which finds bashisms:
> > 
> > checkbashisms(1)
> > 
> > It should find most of bash features. Otherwise, I don't know any
> > conversion guides. You should be able to find shell references on
> > Internet. If in doubt, please ask on the list.
> 
> We pull in XML libraries, python, perl, tls, not to mention that the
> cluster will usually be hosting an actual application or several, but
> then try to not require bash - a package which is smaller than even the
> heartbeat package.

The bash shell is also around ten times bigger and more complex
then a POSIX compatible shell. That should also be taken into
account.

> That is, sorry, a complete waste of time.  I never understood why the
> project even bothered, and figure it must be some archaic time where
> bash was not universally available.
> 
> Just put bash into the default dependencies and be done with it.
> 
> Sorry if that sounds harsh, but we really have more important topics ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
>     Lars
> 
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