On 1/29/2018 9:53 AM, Brian Callahan wrote:
>
> On 01/19/18 18:31, Brian Callahan wrote:
>>
>> On 1/9/2018 10:27 PM, Brian Callahan wrote:
>>> Hi ports --
>>>
>>> Upstream for shells/osh renamed the project. It is now called etsh.
>>> The attached tarball provides a new shells/etsh port that does the
>>> expected upgrade if you've got osh on your machine. Not included in
>>> this tarball is the required quirks entry for osh=>etsh, and the
>>> removal of shells/osh, both of which I will take care of with the
>>> import.
>>>
>>> I chatted with Pascal a bit, and I'll be taking over as MAINTAINER
>>> as part of the transition.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> pkg/DESCR:
>>> The Etsh Project provides two ports of the original /bin/sh from Sixth
>>> Edition (V6) UNIX (circa 1975).
>>>
>>> Etsh(1) is an enhanced, backward-compatible port of the Sixth Edition
>>> Thompson shell. Tsh(1) is an unenhanced port of the shell, and glob(1)
>>> is a port of its global command. Together, tsh and glob provide a user
>>> interface which is backward compatible with that provided by the Sixth
>>> Edition Thompson shell and global command, but without the obvious
>>> enhancements found in etsh.
>>>
>>> The original Thompson shell was principally written by Ken Thompson of
>>> Bell Labs.
>>>
>>> Additionally, this project includes the following shell utilities:
>>> * if(1) - conditional command (ported from Sixth Edition UNIX)
>>> * goto(1) - transfer command (ported from Sixth Edition UNIX)
>>> * fd2(1) - redirect from/to file descriptor 2
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Works correctly, all tests pass on amd64 and armv7.
>>>
>>> OK?
>>>
>>> ~Brian
>>>
>>
>> Ping.
>
> Ping. New tarball because upstream released new version 5.0.2
>
> OK?
>
> ~Brian
>
Ping? I know the v6 shell is probably not on most people's radars but it
would be helpful at least insofar as it would replace a port of
now-rotting code with something that's actively maintained.
~Brian
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