Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Stefan Parvu wrote: > Uaau, I see we have now a dedicated ksh93 migration forum: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=103 > > I hope folks will agree and get this fixed somehow. > stefan This project has the goal to integrate ksh93 into (Open-)Solaris including the update of /bin/

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Stefan Parvu wrote: > We should think to have /bin/sh as ksh93. It is elegant > and simple to do. Are there any objections why /bin/sh > cannot be a ksh93 ? This is unlikely to happen in the forseeable future. It's already difficult enougth to convince Sun to switch /bin/ksh from ksh88 to ksh93 (

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Felix Schulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, since it's trivial to construct a script which works > > differently under ksh than under sh, I'd say no. > Solaris may choose this way - but Opensolaris can choose another... Looks like you confuse things: Solaris is a distribution OpenSolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Stefan Parvu
Uaau, I see we have now a dedicated ksh93 migration forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=103 I hope folks will agree and get this fixed somehow. stefan ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:48:24PM +0200, Felix Schulte wrote: > Solaris may choose this way - but Opensolaris can choose another... No. OpenSolaris refers to the underlying technology base, which will remain self-compatible and architecturally sound. Distribution vendors are free to discard an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Stefan Parvu
> I think we'd love to be able to make that change but > I don't think we can. Why can't we do that ? Every sh script should work ok in ksh93. Isn't it ? Then we don't have so many other choices... we could deliver then something like /usr/ksh93 as we do with Perl5 -> /usr/perl5 Im wonder w

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Darren J Moffat
Felix Schulte wrote: On 3/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think we'd love to be able to make that change but I don't think we can. Why can't we do that ? Every sh script should work ok in ksh93. Isn't it ? Well, since it's trivial to construct a script which works differe

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Felix Schulte
On 3/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> I think we'd love to be able to make that change but > >> I don't think we can. > > > >Why can't we do that ? Every sh script should work ok > >in ksh93. Isn't it ? > > Well, since it's trivial to construct a script which works > d

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Casper . Dik
> >> I think we'd love to be able to make that change but >> I don't think we can. > >Why can't we do that ? Every sh script should work ok >in ksh93. Isn't it ? Well, since it's trivial to construct a script which works differently under ksh than under sh, I'd say no. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Casper . Dik
>We should think to have /bin/sh as ksh93. It is elegant and simple to do. Are >there any objections why /bin/sh cannot be a ksh93 ? > >On other note: Im wonder what would happen with kstat(1M) when Perl6 would be >out. I bet Perl5 wou ld stay as it is somewhere around and Perl6 might be instal

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-27 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi, We should think to have /bin/sh as ksh93. It is elegant and simple to do. Are there any objections why /bin/sh cannot be a ksh93 ? On other note: Im wonder what would happen with kstat(1M) when Perl6 would be out. I bet Perl5 would stay as it is somewhere around and Perl6 might be installe