> X-Unix-From: roland.mainz at nrubsig.org Tue Feb 14 14:22:12 2006 > April Chin wrote: > > > > Could you please send me a list of which scripts you found which needed > > changes? This would be helpful, though I will still have to do > > a current analysis of the latest Solaris scripts. > > Yes, I can do that...
Great--thanks! Plus any details if possible on how this list was culled, e.g., ksh -n or eyeballing of scripts. I have an idea of some possible things to grep for, but any additional help is appreciated. > > > and there > > are features in the existing /usr/bin/ksh which are needed before > > we can replace it, including internationalization with the proper hooks > > for all the Sun-supported locales and multibyte character handling. > > Is there a way to get the testcases/testsuite you were using ? I actually did some manual multibyte tests with another engineer. There is an old (circa 1996), disused test suite which was created for the multibyte character handling project, but unfortunately it depends on a third party harness and other old testing tools. So I did not actually run this suite for ksh93, but maybe we can pull some ksh multibyte test cases out of it. > > - Would Sun like/dislike the diversion between OpenSolaris vs. Solaris > in this point ? AFAIK SchillyX and other distributions did already > expore this part (e.g. ksh93 residing at /usr/bin/ksh) quite > successfully > - How long would such a diversion be tolerated by Sun (Release of > Solaris 11 is more than a year away - there is theoretically time to > sync Solaris with OpenSolaris before FCS, however this would need a very > detailed plan and the blessing of the PSARC) ? > > In general I would like to focus now on getting ksh93 integrated first - > which means: Getting it building, running and commited to the > OpenSolaris tree. > Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> from genunix.org said we could > have a branch in their SVN (=Subversion) respository - which may be > ideal for getting a prototype running. > This prototype would also help finding any serious problems before we > move the work to the main OpenSolaris repository, hopefully avoiding > something which was called the "quality death spiral" (e.g. things in > the "trunk" branch are broken so people do not install it and more and > more issues may hide in "trunk" until the tree gets unuseable (something > which happened during Netscape4.x deveopment and caused Netscape to > create the "tinderbox" automated test system)) in the original > discussion... > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > > -- > __ . . __ > (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org > \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer > /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 > (;O/ \/ \O;)
