On 8/8/07, Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > Unless I am mistaken, a decision has been made to standardize on an updated > ksh93 in Nevada.
I do find the term 'updated' frightening given the tendency by Sun to fork code. We have firsthand experience with significant engineering problems where Solaris ports of our products require more development time because Sun largely ignores standards like SUS or POSIX and declares it's own API 'the standard'. Irek _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
