Opened 6 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#58217 closed enhancement (wontfix)

bash-completion: add subport for bash 3.2 compatible version

Reported by: mohd-akram (Mohamed Akram) Owned by: raimue (Rainer Müller)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: bash-completion

Description

It would be nice to have a subport which supports the default macOS bash. I prefer to use the default bash to make sure scripts work on other systems. Homebrew currently does this by having two separate formulae, bash-completion & bash-completion@2. The last version compatible with bash 3.2 is bash-completion 1.3.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: raimue removed
Owner: set to raimue
Status: newassigned

comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

As a side note, you can still test scripts with /bin/bash regardless of the bash version you use as interactive shell. You are not forced to keep using bash 3.2 for this reason.

bash-completion 1.3 is old and unmaintained. I see that it might be useful for some, therefore I am happy to apply a patch to provide a subport such as bash-completion-legacy or bash32-completion. However, personally I see no point in providing ports without an upstream source that is actively working on bugfixes and improvements and will not work on this.

comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by mohd-akram (Mohamed Akram)

With Apple essentially deprecating bash in macOS Catalina, there won't be much need for this.

comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

Resolution: wontfix
Status: assignedclosed
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