On 26/07/2021 13:35, mayur...@kathe.in wrote:
cross-posting since i accidentally addressed this one to omnios-discuss the first time. sorry. i have noticed a trend amongst communities oriented towards building open source unix-like operating systems; the project starts off as being quite lean, but then acquires a lot of fat due to dependence on the non-core toolkit. from the illumos perspective, i would say, "core" would be the kernel + userland, all written using a combination of ansi-c and the system default shell (korn). afaik, 'ips' is built using python which supposedly coordinates between minisat (written in ansi-c), the userland and some mechanism to get files off the network. i am not yet clear about how 'ips' works, and i am working at overcoming that by consulting "till wegmueller" who has written a couple of implementations of 'ips' using different programming languages (it think; go and rust), but, it would be worthwhile to get a broader input from those in the community who were from "sun microsystems" as to why python was chosen over ksh93. also, after an email thread on omnios-disucss, it has been revealed that there are a bunch of tools on the base system which depend of 'gnu' bash, is there any way that could be rectified? or is that issue only within omnios and not addressable by the illumos community at large? is there any way the illumos community could get interested in shedding it's fat even at the userland level?
Even if many here agree that, e.g., bash (or gnu tools in general) is nothing we really want here, you cannot ignore its dominance elsewhere, especially in the Linux domain where most of the software we like to provide also is targeted at nowadays. So if you want to have the ability to ever compile anything coming from upstream, or even enable your users to compile other software they download for themselves, you have to provide all that "fat" if you don't want to constantly rewrite what you've pulled. Whining to upstream about that will do nothing, you will be simply ignored... That's the reality today, you have to cope with that. The same applies (even more) for python. And ksh93 has been obsoleted in Linux, so guess what happens next in the foreseeable future... If you don't want to be left completely isolated quickly, you have to adapt.
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