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Re: Identifying the NetBSD shell



On Mon 21 Mar 2016 at 14:42:21 -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I strongly agree.  How about just giving it a date rather than a version
> number?  You can still bump the date only when something significant
> changes.  Then scripts can just numerically require that NBSH > 20160401
> or the like.

That makes a lot of sense to me. Starting at or near 1.0 would seem to
imply that sh is fairly new and didn't have many previous versions,
which is untrue.

-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for
\X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl    -- 'this bath is too hot.'

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