On 08/08/07, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I don't think you say that for everyone, certainly not in the context of usability, functionality, etc. > 2. shell performance is irrelevant. To some people. To say that it is irrelevant to everyone is a bit presumptuous. > 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. Popularity is not always the best way to choose things, if it was, we'd all be running Windows... -- 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
