From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: Export arrays for 'sh' code blocks when using bash Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:23:33 -0600 Message-ID: <87oazr5xkg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <871txn1qni.fsf@bagel.gateway.pace.com> <871txkff89.fsf@gmail.com> <871tx4zj3i.fsf@gmail.com> <8761mg3sry.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87fvlfs1oh.fsf@gmail.com> <87r44p4bpj.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87zjjd2i8z.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <877g6h2h5j.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44049) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wd8PH-0005Qx-PS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:25:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wd8P9-00029C-Lq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:24:55 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Skip Collins Cc: Pascal Fleury , Bastien , emacs-org list Skip Collins writes: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Pascal Fleury wrote: >> (have not used bash3 in quite a long time :-) > > Even OS X Mavericks uses bash 3. So it will be around for quite a long time. > I believe Bash 4 is GPLv3 and Bash 3 is GPLv2, so it is very possible that OSX will never upgrade to the current bash. If the fix is obvious and simple then it sounds like a win. I suppose the argument could be made that an Emacs project should not go out of it's way to support old versions of software which are potentially being used only to avoid GPLv3 licensing... but I won't make that argument here. -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D