RFC: remove lash?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 21 May 2007 21:02, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> >To have four shells in busybox is too much IMO.
> >
> >Since hush is based on lash, and seems to be a bit more
> >advanced than lash, I propose removing lash altogether.
> >
> >For a few releases we can keep "lash" applet which\
> >prints "DEPRECATED!" warning and starts hush_main.
> >
> >What do you think people? Especially lash users?
> 
> I'd like to keep lash around (default it to off), just because it's the
> smallest shell we have (isn't it?) and suffices for executing commands
> (i.e. does what a shell is supposed to do).
> 
> If you change hash so it can be configured down to just the basic
> std::cin;exec(); loop without any fancy stuff, then i'm all for fading
> lash out.

I'm trying. hush had no features to turn on/off until recently,
but now it has three, and biggest/smallest versions have
the following sizes:

# size hush.o hush_big.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  11775       0       0   11775    2dff hush.o
  15328       0       0   15328    3be0 hush_big.o

lash is still smaller:

# size lash.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   7390       0      56    7446    1d16 lash.o
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