I would prefer any proposed /usr/bin/sh migration be a follow-up
to /usr/bin/ksh migration. Changing /usr/bin/sh may prove more difficult but
then again the /usr/bin/ksh work may pave the way.
April
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> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:47:08 +0200
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> Martin Schaffstall wrote:
>
> [CC:'ing April to get her opinion on that...]
>
> > On 7/21/06, Josh Hurst <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Roland,
> > >
> > > would it be possible to extend the functionality of
> > > Makefile.ksh93switch in your ksh93 prototype a little and add an
> > > option to install ksh93 as /bin/sh, too?
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Question to the sun.com people: Could we run a "/bin/sh migration to
> > POSIX sh (=ksh93)" project in parallel to this one or will it be
> > better to run it as a followup to the ksh93 migration?
>
> Well, some stuff which we will discuss during the attempt to convince
> Sun to update /usr/bin/ksh to ksh93 status in Solaris will apply to
> /bin/sh, too. However this migration is already HIGHLY controversical
> with high resistance within Sun so I would expect that an attempt to get
> /bin/sh migrated will likely result in a bloodshed. The advantages would
> be huge... but I doubt that this will happen for Solaris in the
> forseeable future. OpenSolaris distributions may choose a different path
> here...
>
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> Bye,
> Roland
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