On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>wrote:

> Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Pascal Fleury <fleury@google.com>
> 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 think it should be. It could prod the version the very first time it
runs, and use that.


> 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.
>

Even array support in ob-shell.el is a win for bash3, and as a user of Mac
OSX myself, I would not like a project like org-mode to push such pains
onto the users especially as here it is a regression for bash3 users.

I'm a bit overbooked these days, I hope you won't mind if it will take a
few more days for a fix.

--paf


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