On 16 May 2012 11:26, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I think this was more about a personal issue with your person. The subject was that he won't take ANY patches from YOUR person anymore. > For this reason, I recommend to > be very careful with decifing to use code from that site. Yeah, yeah. Now you turn the problems you have with the maintainer into an argument against him. This is NOT civilised behaviour. Also, Joerg, please grow up. >> 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"? Yes, since development has almost stopped for SchillyX. Your not even keeping track what illumos does. > 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. Joerg, this is not true. The libraries have to be moved to /lib, that's all. Your enhanced bourne shell would have the same problem if it would be dynamically linked. Again, please grow up and stop making such promotional arguments. > Installing the Bourne Shell in /sbin/sh helpd to fix that problem. Does your Bourne shell conform to the POSIX shell standard. Please answer 'yes' or 'no'. Only one of these two words. Lionel _______________________________________________ belenix-discuss mailing list http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
