Can tcsh official provides portable binary version of tcsh ?

[edwinjhlee]

Hello, friends in csh community,

I am developing x-cmd in the recent three years. X-cmd is implementing using posix shell.
Recently I am think of porting x-cmd to freebsd, which I heard so much about it.

I found freebsd using csh as default. So I am also porting x-cmd to csh last night. I do like the csh grammar, even I know little about it.

I would love to make csh as a portable script language everywhere. I think it is cool.
In x-cmd's pkg system, every pkg is portable and can be used in the user space.
That means when the user can 'x <script>.py', x-cmd can download the py runtime automatically in the least intrusive way.

This can also apply to csh.

So I am wondering is it possible that tcsh official provide a static build csh or any kinds of portable version for mac/linux/openbsd, that I can use it in the way above ?

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We currently use cosmopolitan to providde portable bash and zsh.

https://cosmo.zip/

https://www.x-cmd.com/mod/cosmo

[edwinjhlee]

I am also quite curious about the usage and advantages of csh.

So I post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606521 to get to know csh more.

I know that topic is subjective. But still I would like to hear from the experience csh user about how to levarage the advantage of csh.

Thank you.

[suominen]

A good start would be this entry in the FAQ: Where can I learn the merits of tcsh vs. bash vs. csh vs. sh etc?

[edwinjhlee]

A good start would be this entry in the FAQ: Where can I learn the merits of tcsh vs. bash vs. csh vs. sh etc?

Thank you.