[Bash-completion-devel] Keeping support for bash < 3.0?

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sat Jan 17 18:20:14 UTC 2009


Hello,

What's the status of keeping support for bash < 3.0, do we have people around 
here who strongly think that it should be preserved and/or who regularly test 
with older versions?

Personally, I don't have access to a box that has bash < 3.0 any more and thus 
I'm not able to test with those versions any more nor would mind them being 
dropped, but I'm not insisting dropping either.

What prompted me to ask this question was an interesting looking patch posted 
to Red Hat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479936
I suppose there would be possibilities for further 
cleanups/optimizations/simplifications if bash 3.0 was the oldest supported 
version.



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