>The issue of backwards compatibility is already addressed very well in >ksh93 itself. Most of the opensolaris distributions - excluding >Solaris itself - are shipping ksh93 as /bin/ksh or are going to ship >it. The ksh integration tree contains a master built switch >specifically for that purpose: >http://polaris.blastwave.org/browser/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/prototype002/m1_ast_ast_imported/usr/src/cmd/ksh/Makefile.ksh93switch?rev=277
The issue of backwards compatibility is not "addressed very well"; the number of incompatibilities between ksh88 and ksh93 is large and there is no way to make many of them disappear. The question is more how much this will hurt. >> While I am certainly not _fully_ aware of all the issues I can say >> with some degree of certainty that wide sweeping slurs will get you >> personally no where. Trust me, I ought to know! > >Yeah. But I am NOT alone with the feeling that something is going >wrong. Why does this project need more than half a year to get some >sources moved into the Solaris tree? This is a task which should be >finished within weeks and NOT years. It's much more difficult than that because of AST integration and other stuff changed in /lib (such as usurping libcmd) as well as some continuous fine tuning of ksh93 itself. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
