Re: dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Roland Mainz wrote: As I said... if dtksh cannot be fixed using an upgrade it should be removed ASAP. dtksh is actually one of the parts of CDE identified during the currently ongoing CDE EOF process as forming part of the public/stable API/ABI of CDE, since we know third party scripts have

Re: dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Zygmont
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! General note: The email below contains some of the old history of dtksh in Solaris and some background why the ksh93-integration project was created. I would prefer to take this as a page in a history book and _not_ as opportunity to come up

Re: dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-24 Thread John Plocher
Would Sun adopt that version? I have no clue. As I said... if dtksh cannot be fixed using an upgrade it should be removed ASAP. I'd be interested to play with this, I think this kind of thing can be a really neat and powerful tool, i've used xdialog in the past, which did an ok job, i'm

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Josh Hurst
On 2/16/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Girts Zeltins wrote: Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed? Is there any chance to see them fixed? If they are serious bugs, then they may be

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Ghee Teo
Josh Hurst wrote: On 2/16/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Girts Zeltins wrote: Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed? Is there any chance to see them fixed? If they are serious bugs,

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Josh Hurst
On 2/23/07, Ghee Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh Hurst wrote: On 2/16/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Girts Zeltins wrote: Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed? Is there any

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Ghee Teo
Josh Hurst wrote: On 2/23/07, Ghee Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh Hurst wrote: On 2/16/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Girts Zeltins wrote: Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed?

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread John Plocher
Josh Hurst wrote: WIll Sun FIX dtksh? Both experts in this field - David Korn and Roland Mainz have complained about dtksh being utterly broken because Sun used an unofficial alpha code as ksh basis. It depends on how you define broken. Trying to be precise, several potential definitions of

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Josh Hurst wrote: WIll Sun FIX dtksh? If customers escalate bugs, yes. I know it annoys Roland, but there aren't actually a whole lot of dtksh users out there reporting bugs on it. Both experts in this field - David Korn and Roland Mainz have complained about dtksh being utterly broken

dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! General note: The email below contains some of the old history of dtksh in Solaris and some background why the ksh93-integration project was created. I would prefer to take this as a page in a history book and _not_ as opportunity to come up with the old flamewars about dtksh, support

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-16 Thread James Carlson
Girts Zeltins writes: Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed? Is there any chance to see them fixed? CDE is still a supported part of the system. At second I plan soon to write letter to OpenGroup

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Girts Zeltins wrote: Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed? Is there any chance to see them fixed? If they are serious bugs, then they may be fixed. Low priority (P4 P5) bugs aren't being worked on

[osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-15 Thread Girts Zeltins
Hello, Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed? Is there any chance to see them fixed? At second I plan soon to write letter to OpenGroup and talk about faster CDE open sourcing. Best Regards, Girts