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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:53:30 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> That's where I would be leaning, too.  I think it makes sense to include
> the completions in bash.  Or maybe in shellutils?
> 
> The only problem with this that I can see is that they'll be more "hidden"
> there.  If they are a separate setup.exe package then it is more likely
> that someone will notice them and say "Hey, cool!" and install them.
> 
> If they just slide in with a bash installation then, unless we make them
> the default, it's more likely that people won't know what they have unless
> they're reminded about it on the mailing list (or whereever).
> 
> Hmm.  Maybe I just convinced myself that they belong as a separate package.

How about this:
John, why don't you create a "bashutils" package, to serve as a 
collection of (moderately) useful bash scripts and settings.  For now, 
it could contain only bashcompletion, but later you could add -- oh, 
bashprompt, or something...

I'm thinking something like my cygutils package, which is just a grab 
bag of very simple (single-source-file) utilities.

(FYI, you can find bashprompt here...
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/
the official site is completely flaky, so I mirrored it)

--Chuck