On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:10:48PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
But otherwise you have a dependency on bash which can't be checked by Cabal. Note that e.g. the BSDs don't install bash by default.
Well, strictly speaking bash is not a requirement. Since I would expect Run.runProcessWithInput to return an empty string in case of failure (there was a discussion about that some time ago: someone wanted it to return a Maybe String), ShellPrompt uses bash to get directory completion, but if bash is not present ShellPrompt should just be working with command completions and without directory completions. That is to say, ShellPrompt was expected to work even without bash. Which means it does not depend on it. This is why I still think that ShellPrompt is an appropriate name, since the prompt is executing shell commands. If you want to have directory completion (a plus), well, get a bash shell in your path. Andrea