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Re: zsh-5.0.7-dev-4

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Martijn Dekker <martijn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:50:
>> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:33:52 +0200
>> Martijn Dekker <martijn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Peter Stephenson schreef op 27-05-15 om 21:06:
>>>> You can get another test release of 5.0.8 from
>>>>
>>>> http://www.zsh.org/pub/development
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping I can release this within a couple of days.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, it has the 'test' bug I posted about just now.
>>
>> That's very minor and has been there for ages --- I hope I'll get a
>> chance to fix it (suspect it's easy) but it's not going to block the release
>> anyway.
>
> The spurious error message is not the real problem. Because of the
> incorrect exit status, this causes any POSIX script that uses 'test -n
> $stuff' or '[ -n $stuff ]' on arbitrary input (i.e. which might include
> '(' or ')') to take the wrong action, so I would hardly call this minor.

The important factor is that it is not a regression.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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