Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>
> Is this one of those FOSS cases we are supposed to not get too deep into
> polishing the edges?
I don't think so. ksh93 is more intrinsically becoming a core
component, that we build our system upon. It has a non-External
commitment. Therefore, I believe it deserves reasonable review.
Furthermore, from past experience, it seems that the project team and
even the upstream sources have been cooperative in making reasonable
changes required for Solaris. And sometimes, maybe even we can benefit
the wider ksh93 audience -- I think at least one of the issues at stake
here impacts all ksh93 on all platforms, not just Solaris. :-)
(I guess, IMO, I feel like the ksh93 project is more like a friendly
peer project -- akin perhaps to something like Java or the C compilers
-- than an FOSS project where we are nothing more than a strict
consumer. If the ksh93 folks think differently, I'd like to hear so.)
-- Garrett
