On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:13:42 +0100
""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 12/18/11 6:02 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > There are parallel computing aspects in libbash for metadata
> > generation, data structures in AST building for bash and it's quite
> > low level.
> 
> By the way, I've always wondered why libbash is separate from the
> "upstream" bash.
> 
> Have you considered contributing to the upstream bash to convert the
> shell itself to a more library-oriented design (somewhat similar to
> LLVM), so that you have a guarantee that the lib and the shell stay
> in sync?

I don't think upstream bash would be interested in converting bash into
C++. I wouldn't be interested in running such a bash, for instance.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny