[arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

[David Benfell]

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On 08/06/2012 09:28 AM, Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> On 6 August 2012 08:26, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> OT: Talking with an archer on irc about this thread and differences
> between bash and zsh yesterday, he told me he uses zsh for a long
> time now and it has quality improvements over bash like better code
> organization (he told me zsh is modular), light on resources (I
> expected zsh to be heavier) and that even zsh is speedier than bash
> O_o May be I need to give zsh another review?
> 
I was only being a little bit snarky yesterday. But in truth, it isn't
just zsh features I prefer. For me, the ways in which zsh is
preferably incompatible with bash aren't just in zsh features (which
are indeed very cool) but in the ways that it interprets command
lines--ways which I think zsh handles more intuitively correctly.

But that latter is an issue. It may break an (I assume) unknown number
of existing scripts if used for sh, so I think the likely conclusion
would be that *both* bash (for sh compatibility) and zsh would have to
be installed. I'm not opposed to this, but I'll certainly concede that
there are valid points to be made in opposition.

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David Benfell
benfell at parts-unknown.org
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