Re: [QUERY] Re: [PATCH] packages: Thou shalt obey shell-file-name and shell-command-switch II

Deleting XEmacs patches from the discussion. SY> So I'll say it again. This works fine, but what happens if SY> the user has set 'shell-file-name' and/or SY> 'shell-command-switch' to something other than the default? That's the user's problem, of course. We should make sure that defaults for 'shell-file-name' and 'shell-command-switch' are sensible on each platform (ie, "/bin/sh" and "-c" resp on Unix). On my Linux box it's "/bin/bash" which I guess is harmless (although it encourages people to use bash-isms in generic code). The docstring should warn the user that use of non-default values can cause problems, as most XEmacs commands are going to expect POSIX behavior from the shell. We should cross reference those variables in the documentation. This is not yet done. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.