Lionel Cons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Heirloom seems to be a dead project mostly based on OpenSolaris code. > > That's not true. Heirloom has lots of interesting changes and features > which are not based on Opensolaris and were added later. Yes,
Most of the code was ported to Linux in a half hearted way that introduced bugs. Few programs indeed have been enhanced (e.g. nail - en enhanced cversion of mailx). But I reported e.g a bug in the imap implementation of nail that caused nail to han in some cases with mails without Subject: and the author signalled that he is not interested in working on a fix. For this reason, I recommend to be very careful with decifing to use code from that site. > development has mostly ceased (same applies for SchillyX, which hadn't > any commits in 2012 and only a handful in 2011) but some of their > features are still worth taking. It seems that you missinterpret things. SchilliX-ON added 350000 lines of code. Do you like to call this "a handful"? There is more activity that you don't seem to notice. > Seriously, who still wants the original Bourne shell? It seems that you did not look at the Bourne Shell for a long time. The problem with the korn shell is that it is huge and that it does not support separate root & usr filesystems as it needs libraries that are under /usr. Installing the Bourne Shell in /sbin/sh helpd to fix that problem. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ belenix-discuss mailing list http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
