[Bash-completion-devel] Mandriva handling of bash completion

[David Paleino]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:34:10 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Saturday 17 January 2009, David Paleino wrote:
> 
> > Also, but this is something we should work on at a later time IMHO, there's
> > also the bash-completion-lib fork, which seems to "dinamically" load
> > completions when the command is typed. But that's just food for thought.
> 
> Has merging with bash-completion-lib been discussed?

Not really, it popped up some time ago on this same list, and Freddy Vulto (the
author of the "fork") is a member of the team now -- he already contributed
some valuable patches to our "old" code.

> It looks like very good stuff on the surface (haven't tried it myself).

I haven't either :/

> Merging could be quite painless now when the projects haven't drifted that
> far apart in other functionality.  Some related efforts:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475229
> http://groups.google.nl/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/8f5d27d0d8b27bd7

Well.
To start hacking on the fork, I'm going to create a separate bzr branch.
Reading http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash_completion_library , it seems pretty smart
(really, loading completions only when needed is smarter than loading
everything just using have())

I also really like the DejaGNU test suites -- we haven't anything like that in
the old code, and would really need it.

I'll try some work in my (limited) spare time on merging the projects, and
announce the results here.

Kindly,
David

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