Update installing.rst: replaced 'source' with '.'

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Update installing.rst: replaced 'source' with '.' #1917

Closed ekalinin closed 8 years ago

ekalinin commented 8 years ago

source is synonymous for . in bash and zsh only. Some lighter shells don't have source command. Moreover, only . is specified by POSIX. So ksh, dash, ash, etc. may not have source.

rafrombrc commented 8 years ago

Thanks for your contribution, but I'm going to leave it as is. We used to just have . build.sh, as you do, but we ended up w/ people commonly misreading it, using ./build.sh, and showing up in IRC asking why it wasn't working. We changed it to source build.sh while still including a reference to . build.sh for the folks who aren't using bash and we haven't had any confusion since.