[Bash-completion-devel] Dynamic completion loader.

[David Paleino]

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:16:55 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On 04/07/2011 10:46 PM, dpc at ucore.info wrote:
>
> > The question is -- is there anyone interested in merging it with mainline?
> 
> Sometime something like that will most definitely be implemented, but at
> the moment we're targeting bash >= 3.2.  When that "sometime" might be
> depends on availability of developer/maintainer resources.  FWIW my
> personal interest towards bash < 4.1 will decrease gradually this year
> as the systems I work with get upgraded.  I'm not aware of other project
> members' thoughts about this.

+1 from me.

Personally, I work with Debian everywhere, and our latest stable has 4.1
already.

However, being upstream, I can't just say "in Debian we have it, let's drop
support altogether!". We somehow need to check how many users use 3.2 < x <
4.1.

FWIW, also Ubuntu has bash 4.1 since one year (Lucid, 10.04 IIRC).

So, for .deb-based systems, I believe it's ok. I'm missing info for the whole
RPM-based world though. :)

My 2c,
David

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