On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Bruno Jargot wrote: > I thought we're talking about making /bin/sh being ksh93, NOT bash > Using bash would be the wrong direction. Indiana should make thinks > BETTER than Linux. > > A few numbers:
This all feels a little surreal. Remember, we're targeting developers. 1. the *n*x shell is *not* a competitive differentiator. Nobody cares if a shell is "better". Nobody. 2. shell performance is irrelevant. The things that will make Indiana better in a way that developers will notice will be better/safer package management, better observability (dtrace), better data management (zfs), and so on. For totally commoditized things like /bin/sh, the decision procedure should be: 1. Do a little research and find out what the highest proportion of target developers is used to 2. Choose that. -Tim _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
