>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Price <dp at eng.sun.com> writes:

Dan> I agree that if we're going to go replace wc, etc. with things from
Dan> ksh, then there may well be a compelling argument to bringing this
Dan> stuff into ON, since the level of mixing will be high.

Dan> But then... wouldn't we be tying the implementation of wc, etc.  to
Dan> the *private interfaces* of something which originates externally?

I was assuming that the common code would live somewhere else in the
source tree and be owned by ON, rather than being owned by ksh93.
Though now that you mention it, I guess that approach has its own set of
issues, like how to package/build an unbundled (direct from ATT) version
of ksh93 for Solaris.

mike

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