Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-08-02 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:07:37AM -0700, Ferdinand O. Tempel wrote: [ ... ] As time progresses OpenSolaris will run ahead of the music, and introduce incomaptibilites with Solaris. That's This is not the plan and is not our announced

[osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-28 Thread UNIX admin
Why? That's not that important. You can not know now what other distros will be good for. It could be that there is a distro you can put in your coffee-cup and that coffee-cup communicates with the computer you are in front of - so probably there is not enough space for ksh in such a distro

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/28/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: POSIX documentations (man pages) are written in a way that allows you to implement all features of the program from only reading the apropriate man page. I'm not certain how that point is relevant. All we know in this case is that ksh88 may

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/27/05, Helmar Wodtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext2fs: http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html#9.24 Well, that's like this access to some misconfigured Windows-Partitions on Linux... It's read-only and I can access only one partition (question: also only one if I have two disks?): Not

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/27/05, Helmar Wodtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: discussing about interfaces and standards is a good thing, standards are a good thing, the hackslay mentality often shown in the so-called open source community is not. Try to understand it from a different view: the source is not

[osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Bob Palowoda
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 23:31, Helmar Wodtke wrote: I'm really impressed by the discussion about ksh. discussing about interfaces and standards is a good thing, standards are a good thing, the hackslay mentality often shown in the so-called open source community is not. patrick mauritz

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Shawn Walker wrote: a) may be the safer way but is not always necessary. Your example of Postscript interpreter doesn't fit nearly as well because you're talking about (as far as I know) is an undcoumented proprietary file format, Not that it matters a whole lot to this discussion, but I