Felix Schulte wrote: > > 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.
I am not sure whether Henk was thinking about a whole new Solaris distribution or just a distribution which consists of some add-on packages... I assume the 2nd option applies here... Henk ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
