On 8.7.2013 12:43, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> wrote:
On 8.7.2013 08:15, Dan Shelton wrote:
I'm trying to comprehend this: The ksh93 version in Fedora 19 is a
year old. Does anyone know why?
Dan
Hi Dan,
simple answer, because it's latest stable release. KSH in Fedora
{17,18,19,rawhide} is 2012-08-01 with some backported fixes.
There is no newer stable release. There is no newer beta release.
FYI ast-ksh.20130628 with Roland's fixes for Solaris is *stable*.
1) our tests does not share this opinion (I did not try Roland's fixes)
2) I believe that David and Glen have the best information to decide
whether release XYZ is stable/beta/alpha and if they say it's alpha, I
definitely won't argue with that.
Dan is specifically asking for poll(1) - Redhat's competitors were a
lot faster in backporting *that* particular feature.
1) Beware that Redhat != Fedora.
2) Different Linux distributions use different strategies. Fedora has
policy that major updates of packages in released products are
discouraged and AFAIK update to alpha/beta is strongly
discouraged/forbidden except in rare cases where there is no other
solution (for example original version being seriously broken or
security issue).
There was no request (in bugzilla) for this so far, so I did not look at
this yet. Once I have a little more time I'll check that patch and
consider whether it's good idea to include it or not.
Live long and prosper
Michal
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