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Diffstat (limited to 'shells/scsh/pkg-descr')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 48 deletions
diff --git a/shells/scsh/pkg-descr b/shells/scsh/pkg-descr index 225f095e4334..7df558d870dc 100644 --- a/shells/scsh/pkg-descr +++ b/shells/scsh/pkg-descr @@ -1,64 +1,28 @@ -Scsh is a Unix shell in that is has significant syntax entensions to +Scsh is a Unix shell in that is has significant syntax extensions to make writing Unix shell scripts easy (constructing pipelines, setting I/O redirection, conditional execution etc.). It also offers access to lower-level functionality like all Posix system calls, TCP/IP sockets -and a full-featured regular expression library. All this is embedded -into a general-purpose programming language with proper handling of -quoting, real data types and extensive, syntactically clean control -constructs. +and a full-featured regular expression library. This is embedded into +a general-purpose programming language with real data types, +extensive, syntactically clean control constructs and "real" quoting +rules. Scsh is also a full implementation of R4RS Scheme with some -non-standard behaviour (required for scripting) that shouldn't be a -problem in practice. As a result, a wide varity of exsting Scheme code -can be used. - -Offered functionality: -- Scheme special forms to work with Unix commands and command chains -- the ability to be used to write self-identifying scripts with - '#!/usr/local/bin/scsh' as the first line. -- all Posix system calls including signals, tty and time handling -- regular expressions, uses the same C library as *BSD, returns a - proper structure describing the matches and/or matched substrings. -- delimited strings, awk-like record/field processing -- several socket layers -- A foreign function interface to use other C code, including a tool - (cig) to automate integration process. -- elisp code to run it as a subprocess under emacs -- On the Scheme side: a module system, basic thread support, optional - static linker (compiles images to C, then into an executable). +non-standard behavior (required for scripting). As a result, a wide +varity of exiting Scheme code can be used. The underlying Scheme implementation is a virtual machine for compact byte code. -Installed Items: ----------------- - -Main program name(s): "scsh" -Manpage(s): scsh(1) -Info files: <none> -Other documentation: lib/scsh/doc/ (also linked to share/doc/scsh) -Learning entry point: lib/scsh/doc/scsh-paper.ps or - http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh/ - -General Notes: --------------- - -Changing ${PREFIX} to something other than /usr/local works -flawlessly, as far as scsh itself is concerned (that means: it will -run and find everythings it needs). You will have to change the -initial "#!/usr/local/bin/scsh" line when running shell scripts, of -course. An additional problem is the location of optional packages -like slib, these are still expected to be in /usr/local. I looked -into the sources and all the hardcoded /usr/local I found are in files -that are installed sourcecode form when scsh is installed -(i.e. slib-init.scm). +The name of the installed program is "scsh", the manpage is scsh(1), +other documentation is in (/usr/local/)lib/scsh/doc To load slib, install slib into /usr/local/lib/slib and run (load "slib-init.scm") in scsh. It requires no additional setup (paths or such). The emacs interface is in the original distribution in emacs/. For -documentation see doc/user-quide.txt. +documentation see doc/user-guide.txt. Differences between FreeBSD port and generic scsh release: ---------------------------------------------------------- @@ -67,7 +31,7 @@ Differences between FreeBSD port and generic scsh release: confirmation. I changed the default to do this just once. See constant *y-or-n-eof-count* in scsh/rw.scm to change it. -2) The original scsh sends a mail to the scsh authors everytime you +2) The original scsh sends a mail to the scsh authors every time you make the package. The FreeBSD port doesn't. The authors of scsh would appreciate it if you do a `(cd work/scsh-0.4.4 && make .notify)` after you build this package. @@ -81,4 +45,4 @@ lib/scsh/emacs. scsh's default is not to install these files. 5) Some /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp -FreeBSD port provided by Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> +Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> |