Re: [indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 01/11/2007, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/1/07, Lurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A developer would know how to change his/her environment to use a shell of > >> his/her choice, some prefer tcsh, some zsh, some ksh, others bash. I'm all > >> for having bash as the defa

Re: [indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread David . Comay
> /bin/sh -c 'print ${.sh.version}' > /bin/sh: bad substitution > > I hoped Indiana would improve things and deliver the ksh 93 as > /bin/sh, but no, it is just the same bourne shell as in Solaris. No > improvement. Indiana doesn't improve things for developers. Actually I had hoped to explore rep

Re: [indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Jennifer Pioch wrote: > The choice for /bin/bash as user shell for 'Jack' and 'root' is a > SHAME. This the same argument as the one over /usr/gnu. The huge number of people who've grown up outside of Solaris, the ones we want to attract, will find this setup sm

Re: [indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jennifer Pioch wrote: > /bin/sh -c 'print ${.sh.version}' > /bin/sh: bad substitution > > I hoped Indiana would improve things and deliver the ksh 93 as > /bin/sh, but no, it is just the same bourne shell as in Solaris. No > improvement. Indiana doesn't improve things for developers. This is a pr

Re: [indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On 11/1/07, Lurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A developer would know how to change his/her environment to use a shell of >> his/her choice, some prefer tcsh, some zsh, some ksh, others bash. I'm all >> for having bash as the default shell. > > Did you even try ksh93? Its been a real long few

Re: [indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Jennifer Pioch
On 11/1/07, Lurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A developer would know how to change his/her environment to use a shell of > his/her choice, some prefer tcsh, some zsh, some ksh, others bash. I'm all > for having bash as the default shell. Did you even try ksh93? Jenny -- Jennifer Pioch, Uni Fr

Re: [indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Lurie
A developer would know how to change his/her environment to use a shell of his/her choice, some prefer tcsh, some zsh, some ksh, others bash. I'm all for having bash as the default shell. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss

[indiana-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Jennifer Pioch
/bin/sh -c 'print ${.sh.version}' /bin/sh: bad substitution I hoped Indiana would improve things and deliver the ksh 93 as /bin/sh, but no, it is just the same bourne shell as in Solaris. No improvement. Indiana doesn't improve things for developers. The choice for /bin/bash as user shell for 'Ja