yes reginald, these arguments make a lot of sense. thanks for sharing your views so coherently.
On Monday, July 26, 2021 11:40 PM IST, "Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss" <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't like bash(1). Nothing personal, just too many "features". But that > is irrelevant in this context. > > The decision to use bash for the default shell is quite sound as it's the > default pretty much everywhere now. This spares the overworked admin the > nuisance of one platform being "special". > > As has been noted, you have the means to do whatever you want. But forcing > your choice on others is not likely to succeed in this community. It's a big > ship. It turns slowly after much deliberation. > > Generate a list of all the files in the standard install, decide what you > don't want and delete them. You *had* to do this 30 years ago. Disk was > expensive. > > Today there is also the problem of diminishing returns. The entire OI install > is less than $0.20 USD of disk space for a non-redundant copy at current > prices. How much time is $0.01 worth? The maximum possible savings don't > justify the discussion much less making changes. > > Reg > > > On Monday, July 26, 2021, 12:46:11 PM CDT, 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. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc > > illumos / illumos-discuss / seediscussions +participants +delivery > optionsPermalink ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8b661f3611aef44c-M7d6ec930197bbfc7f76ae5c8 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
