On Feb 7, 2008 9:16 PM, Alan Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bit that everyone putting forward this argument seems to overlook is > the sheer number of scripts in ON that are written for the bourne shell. > Each and every one of these would need to be verified against the new > shell. We are not talking a handful of scripts here. This would be a > monumental task. > > So far I have seen people proposing the change, but no volunteers to do > this verification. > > It won't do itself folks. If we are going to do something, then we need > to look at the *whole* job, not parts of it.
I haven't over looked it. As far as I know, that testing has already been started. Roland has certainly been involved: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=142 http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=442 I don't think folks realise just how much work Roland has already done towards this goal. I'm sure he would welcome help though for those parties that are proficient in the relevant areas. Really, any changes to the existing shell, whether its outright replacement or otherwise need a lot of testing. I myself even created a patch to add support for "export BLAH=FOO" syntax to the current /bin/sh: http://icculus.org/~eviltypeguy/sh_export.patch Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
