Portability problems

[markuspf]

The release script seems to have a couple of portability problems. Here are the ones I have identified so far (using DragonFly BSD).

• I can only reliably get the script to run using bash, neither zsh nor /bin/sh work. One of the issues is obviously the read -d feature that is used, but that's supported by zsh. It seems that zsh does not like for i in $ARCHIVE_FORMATS.
• The script seems to be assuming gnu-ish sed/awk, because the parsing of json fails in jsonval, replacing sed/awk with gsed/gawk "solves" the problem for me.

[fingolfin]

This should be fixed now. I tried with bash, dash and zsh -- note that zsh is compatible when run in "sh emulation mode", e.g. if it is installed as system shell /bin/sh. If you run the release script directly via zsh release, that won't quite work.

[fingolfin]

And yeah, all of this would be avoided if the whole thing was written completly in python... I am tempted to do that, but of course such a rewrite will loose all the testing efforst I already put into this, and would take some time to stabilize again. I am certainly interested, but for now, it was more efficient for me to just adapt the existing shell script.

[fingolfin]

@markuspf Can you confirm whether it works now for you?

[fingolfin]

Since I heard nothing again, I'll assume this is resolved. If not, feel free to reopen.