> > Why? Please give a technical argument in favour of > > this and not just some stupid emotional attachment > to > > the "Solaris way". > > Changing this would break the Solaris user base, and > require extensive > retraining for all existing Solaris administrators.
adding functionality not previously there will not? okay, having the same names does help. > > > Instead of going to Bash I would vote for > > > multi-media traings which show and teach Ksh and > > the > > > coming Ksh(93 I think) and its diffs to Bash so > > that > > > people learn the Solaris way. > > > > Not necessary. bash is available for Solaris and I > do > > not fancy learning another shell. > > Nobody says you can't use bash, which is already on > Solaris along with > csh, ksh (-88 variant for now, but that's being > worked), sh (Bourne, give > or take some possibly divergent evolution), tcsh, > and zsh. Good. He sounded like some ksh zealot. > OTOH, making /bin/sh equal bash would be nuts, IMO. I would not dream of that. > > > Maybe even showing how system relevant shell > > scripts > > > in some linux distributions could be implemented > in > > > Ksh so that one can develop for *Linux and > > > (Open)Solaris. > > > > You must be off your rocker. Why would I want to > > port, > > for example, Redhat's initscripts and the > > /etc/sysconfig directory to Solaris. Or do you > want > > to > > tackle Debian's? Even within Linux space, system > > scripts are already a headache when moving from > one > > Linux distro to another. Please get off your > > pedestal. > > So why should Solaris be any different? If it's > going to have headaches, > it ought to be its own, thought out to satisfy the > needs of its user base, > and not simply someone else's adopted wholesale. I am not asking Solaris to go backwards now am I? > > > > That would build skill sets, that would > "empower" > > > the users and possible developers. > > > > We have more than enough scripting tools to learn. > > One > > can very well use bash in his own shell scripts if > > one fancies. > > As long as one specifies #! /bin/bash or whatever, I > don't care if that's > done. Just don't pretend that the rest of the world > treats sh = bash just > because you like to. I don't pretend that nor do I like bash to be /bin/sh. I just found his convert everything to ksh equally absurd. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
