On 8/6/07, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Hurst wrote: > > +1 > > > > Shipping ksh88 as /bin/ksh in Indiana would be a disaster - first > > Opensolaris promises to replace the old ksh88 with a far superior > > ksh93, invests a year of development and then we neglect the promise > > and work. We'd be in deep dooo-doo if this happens. Neither would it > > be a good omen for other Opensolaris projects. > > I agree Indiana should ship ksh93 (for both technical and licensing > reasons). > > Though, I have to point out.... I find it hard to believe that > Opensolaris, as a non-breathing, non-sentient thing would make such a > promise as to replace ksh88 with ksh93. > > From what I recall, the community members and sponsors involved stated > they would integrate ksh93 into the OpenSolaris source base - not that > they would replace ksh88.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/ reads: "The ksh93-integration project should investigate and execute the integration ... the migration of /usr/bin/ksh to the standard version of ksh93" and the ksh93 list has a long thread about "ksh88->ksh93 migration plan". First paragraph. Hard to miss. Josh _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
