On Monday, July 26, 2021 11:14 PM IST, Judah Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:29 PM Alan Coopersmith < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 7/26/21 10:23 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > On Monday, July 26, 2021 10:14 PM IST, Alan Coopersmith < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> We did consider removing ksh93 during the years it was unmaintained > > after > > >> the original team parted ways with AT&T before the community picked up > > >> maintenance again, but did not end up doing so. > > > > > > mr. coopersmith, please take look at; https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/ > > > > I'm well aware of it, and that's would be what I meant by "the community > > picked > > up maintenance again" in the text you quoted - but there were years before > > that > > happened when it was unmaintained. > > > The GitHub project OP linked to literally has one release since the reboot > tag, and it's a beta at that. OP should compare that with Bash's release > cadence <https://github.com/bminor/bash/releases>. judah, your statement is plain stupid. the reasoning that a software project is more viable only because there are more releases holds no ground. ksh93 has been well defined and stable for a really long time. take a look at the "commits-master" of that github project; https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/commits/master and you'll see a constant set of updates happening on it's source tree. maybe another example would help you understand this better; common-lisp hasn't had any changes to it's specifications since 1984 and ansi-common-lisp since 1994, does that mean it's an obsolete language? hardly so. in fact, it has ensured that there are no breaking changes like what python has. anyways, python is for weenies while common-lisp is used by smart, mature and well grounded developers interested in developer productivity and expressive power. ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8b661f3611aef44c-Ma1d4c390796caecf643983d2 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
