On 5/6/06, Martin Schaffstall <martin.schaffstall at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 5/6/06, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> wrote:
> > Rainer Orth is working on some packaging changes, so that we can get a
> > clean package build with OpenSolaris.  One of the packages that
> > currently has problems is SUNWcsu, because it contains ksh.  Rainer is
> > proposing to split ksh out into its own package, to be called either
> > SUNWksh or SUNWksh88.  I favor SUNWksh88, but I wanted to mention it
> > here in case someone has a good reason for making it SUNWksh.
>
> I think neither SUNWksh or SUNWksh88 are good candidates for package
> names. Why? Because SUNWksh is unsuited for the old korn shell which
> is hopefully being replaced by ksh93 soon (version clash, the same
> package may contain different versions of the shell. It'll may also
> force ksh93 to choose another package name which may be an ill fated
> package name choice, too).

I completely agree with this argumentation. The current Solaris ksh
should may have any package name *EXCEPT* "SUNWksh". "SUNWksh" should
be reserved for the new version (also known as ksh93 :) ) of ksh in
Solaris.

Irek

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