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Adam Heath <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
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Package: Doogie\\\'s Shell - dosh - pronounced douc
System name: dosh
Type: GNU

Description:
My project is a posix shell interpeter written in posix shell.  The plan is to 
support both interpeted and compiled/jit forms.  The output will be runnable in 
non-posix shell.

Currently, I can do simple tokenizing.  const words, \'\', and \"\" parsing 
works, along with $name and ${...}(the features I currently support are bash, 
but these are configurable).

I have currently hand-written a state engine for parsing the above.  A 
subproject will be to write a parser-generator for shell, using the patterns 
discovered in the above hand-written parsing function.

It\'s not efficient yet(it took ash 9.5 minutes to parse 40% of a 10k file(the 
parsing engine itself)), but I am more concerned with correctness than speed 
right now.

It currently only exists on my system, not even in cvs yet.  I\'ll be uploading 
to cvs here as soon as the project is ready to go.

The license will be LGPL.

Other Software Required:
It will require a posix shell for bootstrapping, but will distribute a 
pre-compiled form for use in older shell implementations.

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