>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> writes:
Roland> Offtopic: Will this include the full history of changes in Roland> Solaris, too ? We can't provide full histories for all files. But IIRC the plan (at least for ON) is to provide the SCCS delta comments for the 5 years prior to the June 2005 launch. >> One alternative would be to manually change /usr/bin/ksh to mean >> ksh93. You'd have to redo this any time you installed new Solaris >> Express bits. But building and BFUing OpenSolaris would leave >> /usr/bin/ksh alone. Roland> Yes, but this limits testing a lot... we will not receive much Roland> feedback whether ksh93 causes any scripts and/or applications to Roland> break... ;-/ Good point. Roland> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> from genunix.org said we Roland> could have a branch in their SVN (=Subversion) respository - Roland> which may be ideal for getting a prototype running. >> We should also have Subversion support on opensolaris.org "soon". >> But if the team wants to use Subversion, I guess using genunix.org >> would help things get started more quickly. Roland> The idea of using a branch at genunix.org was to create a Roland> prototype for development, testing and evaluation. Hmm. I'm a little concerned about this possible scenario: a bunch of work is done to get everything working with genunix.org[1], then a relatively small amount of development work happens--enough to meet the minimal requirements for integration into ON--, then April integrates ksh93 into the OpenSolaris source base. At that point, there would be three different source bases (the OpenSolaris one, the genunix one, and the AT&T one). Seems like it could get messy. On the other hand, I like the idea of a project with both internal and external committers. And I can see where making the commit mail available would be a good thing, as you say. *shrug* It's not clear to me what the right approach is. April, do you have any thoughts on this? Roland> for now I would be glad to get some actual work done and get Roland> ksh93+libshell.so integrated into OpenSolaris Roland> - and then decide the next steps... Great! Thanks! mike Notes: [1] I've seen a few internal email messages from people trying to use SVN through Sun's firewall. The mails pretty uniformly say it's painful, apparently due to problems with Sun's network infrastructure and proxies. One of the messages did say something about it being easier with https, but I'm hazy on the details.
