[darcs-users] fwd: volunteers with always-on boxes sought for automated testing

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Roundy writes:

 > Too late, Eric's already made this change.

Cool!

 > And we really don't need to be so very paranoid with the test
 > suite.

Not being paranoid; I would have made the change, but it is certainly
worth checking to see what seems most robust rather than guessing.

 > 
 > As far as I know, the only platform we've gotten reports from regarding
 > bashisms is solaris.  Of course, I know there are debian folks who use
 > non-bash shells as sh, but they apparently don't also run the darcs test
 > suite.

Somebody else (probably Gentoo) also decided to make their default
/bin/sh a strict Bourne shell clone, and I saw complaints about that.