Felix Schulte wrote: > The project started with the goal to introduce ksh93 without adding > any incompatibilities to existing ksh93 versions and you are proposing > such a change against the counsel of both the project team and David > Korn.
The proposal for this project, as originally mailed at the start of this thread, and posted at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/550/materials/proposal/ states that all of libcmd will be Project Private, thus nothing outside of the ksh93 binaries shipped with this project will be using it, and nothing other than them needs to be modified if libcmd is renamed. If there are any incompatibilities with software outside this project introduced by renaming libcmd, then the proposal is incorrect and should not have called libcmd Project Private. The ARC can't be expected to know that any incompatibilities would be introduced when the materials presented by the project team state otherwise. It's clear that what the project team understands about libcmd and what is conveyed to the ARC about libcmd in the proposal aren't quite in sync, and that's lead to most of the argument here, leaving everyone confused. > I think this these are clear words from someone who did lots of work > and investigation on ksh93 in Solaris and I am supporting this > decision. If you or Sun want to introduce an incompatible version of > ksh93 to Solaris then you have to do it alone and I think noone from > the Opensolaris community will help you with that work Sun already has a incompatible version of ksh93 called dtksh, why would we need another? 8-) And I know ksh93 is very important to you and Roland and others on the ksh93 list, but threats like that don't work well - Sun has shipped Solaris for years without a decent ksh93 included and can continue to do so - it's not a make or break feature that's going to affect many millions of dollars in sales - if it was, a whole team could be assigned to make it happen ASAP. It would be good to have, and we're happy to work with Roland & David & Glenn to make it happen, so lets try to keep it civil. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
