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

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

On 7 Aug 2012 08:56, "Jeremiah Dodds" <jeremiah.dodds at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well, all the canon arch scripts use #!/bin/bash, afaik[1] . Other than
> that, while I use zsh regularly and love it, a move to having it as the
> default shell would definitely require a lot of testing, if only because
> bash has become so ubiquitous that I'd worry about breakage due to
> non-POSIX "bashisms" being possibly relied on by a lot of scripts.
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I first tests I guess would have to be done on the install scripts. Are the
install scripts shell agnostic?

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> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Bash_Coding_Style
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