On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:52:39AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:56:41AM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >> >>>>>> Jari Aalto writes: > >> > > >> > > Included in Debian stable (etch). This is nice lighweight > >> > > almost-bash-like shell. > >> > > >> > > http://packages.debian.org/mksh > >> > > >> > > Jari > >> > > >> > > sdesc: "Enhanced version of the Korn shell" > >> > > ldesc: "A shell which is MirBSD enhanced version of the Public > >> > Domain > >> > > Korn shell (pdksh), a bourne-compatible shell which is largely > >> > similar to the > >> > > original AT&T Korn shell. It includes bug fixes and feature > >> > > improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for > >> > > interactive and especially script use." > >> > > category: Shells > >> > > requires: cygwin > >> > > >> > > a) manual > >> > > >> > > wget \ > >> > > http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/setup.hint \ > >> > > http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/mksh-R31b-1-src.tar.bz2 > >> > > >> >Binary package missing. > >> > >> I wasn't paying attention. Do we really want two versions of ksh in the > >> distribution? > >> > >> I'd say this was Igor's call. > > > >We've had this discussion before. The last message was > ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-05/msg00024.html>, which never got > >a reply. > > I thought I remembered something like this. > > Let's not bother with mksh then.
Actually, let's hope that this time Jari answers my questions... As I said, if mksh is a full (and fully compatible) replacement for pdksh, I'm in favor of getting the newer package into the distro. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert