Folks, How about some data to discuss regarding ksh93 differences?
Attached is the latest COMPATIBILITY file from the ksh93 sources. Please Peruse: http://www.kornshell.com/ http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/ PS. Note that pax is available from AT&T too... -STEVEl --- John Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith> What Alan was saying is that once a > definitive list of differences > Keith> exists, it should be possible to implement a > clean set of extensions > Keith> to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that > implementation could then be > Keith> used by Solaris and included with OpenSolaris > for other distributions > Keith> to use as well. > > Roy> No, we cannot work that way. OpenSolaris has > to lead Solaris in all > Roy> respects, including the development of > revisions to existing executables. > Roy> The code has to go into OpenSolaris first, > developed to the point where > Roy> it is compatible, and then used by Solaris in > some future release. The > Roy> folks building the Solaris distribution are > fully capable of writing a > Roy> shell script that selectively chooses what to > include in Solaris based > Roy> on Sun's business requirements. > > Roy> Solaris cannot be placed in a position where it > determines the contents > Roy> of OpenSolaris. That is a dead-end exercise of > tossing code over the > Roy> wall whenever Sun sees fit, which is the > antithesis of what we are > Roy> trying to do with the OpenSolaris communities. > > I have two problems (or potential problems) with > your assertions. > > The first is that all the mechanisms which you rail > against are in fact > how things work now. Your statement of how things > should work matches my > understanding of how things ought to work in the > *long* term, but we have > a lot of short- and medium-term work to do before we > get there, and much > of that work may be somewhat challenging. So we > need to recognize that the > development processes for Solaris in the past to a > large extent continue > into the present and can only change so quickly in > the near future. > > The second is that you sound[1] awfully inflexible. > While it is good to have > such noble goals, given where we are, being too > rigid in the short term may > not be a Good Thing. So I would encourage > flexibility and open-mindedness > as we try to move from the dark past thru the dim > present to the (hopefully) > bright future. > > -- John > > [1] I fully recognize that e-mail is a difficult > medium for communicating > certain thoughts and feelings; apologies if I am > inferring a different > tone that you intended. :-) > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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