[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: ksh88->ksh93 migration plan

[Felix Schulte]

On 2/15/06, Henk Langeveld <hlangeveld at mailworks.org> wrote:
> Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:44:42 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote:
> > if this is too much info let me know
> >
> > libast -- major components used by ksh
> >       cdt     dictionary (hash table etc.) handling
> >               including scoping
> >       sfio    buffered io with stackable disciplines
> >       vmalloc region based memory management
> >       stak    stack memory management on top of sfio
> >       optget  short/long option parse + online docs/manpage
> >       error   error message + i18n translation hook
> >       regex   posix regex with REG_SHELL|REG_AUGMENTED
> >               => compiled shell patterns
> >       glob    built on regex
> > libcmd -- builtin commands (can be pruned to essential builtins)
> > libdll -- portable runtime plugin interface
> >       allows "builtin -f foo" to use high level dll/so names
> >       which are mapped and searched using local conventions
>
>
> As an alternative, we could consider creating an AST BRANDZ distribution
> for Solaris...
And this makes sense - how?
libast is similar to Mozilla NSPR (portable run time) library idea and
the total size of all the three libs doesn't justify a whole new
distribution.
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