On 07/08/07, Chris Pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/7/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 07/08/07, Marc Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ian says it is my job to pick, at least for Solaris. > > > For OpenSolaris, it should be a community decision. > > > But if the community wants me to pick, I would probably go with ksh93. > > > > Just curious...not to be offensive, but why is a Marketing VP making > > technical choices surrounding an OS? I was under the impression that > > engineers made the technical decisions. > > bugs.opensolaris.org has lots of RFE to get Bourne's shell replaced by > a better shell and nothing happened as far as I can remember (>10 > years?). > I don't think Indiana would make much progress unless Ian or Marc make > an executive decision and let the engineers figure out how to > implement it. Without a decision from Ian or Marc we just waste time > in further heated arguments between the royal bourne shell > traditionalists from Sun and the pro-modernisation factions and > neither party has strong enough arguments to win. The worst case would > be that the status quo will be retained, leaving Indiana and > Opensolaris stuck with the old /bin/sh forever.
I see nothing to support your position. Many great changes were already happening within Sun long before new individuals were brought to the "party" so to speak. To assume that a better shell or other technology would not be adopted unless someone else makes that decisions seems a poor argument to make and belittles the efforts already made by Sun engineers that were in some cases started years ago. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
