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Re: Why not SCM as a base for scsh?

To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de
Subject: Re: Why not SCM as a base for scsh?
From: Tom Lord <lord@beehive.cygnus.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:47:02 -0800
Cc: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Reply-to: lord@cygnus.com
        
I agree with Martin that an SCSH port to Guile is a good idea and
repeat, once again, that volunteers are welcome to come forward who
might want to work on such a port.

        Martin writes:

        Of course, doing so would place major parts of scsh under the
        GPL. Is that a problem?


While that might be desirable, it is not a strictly necessary part
of using some of the existing SCSH implementation to make an implementation
for Guile.



        Martin also writes:

        I'm sure the guile people will implement something like scsh
        sooner or later, limiting scsh's audience further.

People are already working on not-quite-compatible shell features for
Guile.   I don't agree that this will limit SCSH's audience, but it 
could turn out to frustrate programmers endlessly

-t

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