Alan> If we are replacing utilities like sleep(1) then we should be using
Alan> the GNU versions not the ksh93 versions,

Jennifer> Now the great Alan Burlison comes and declares the work largest
Jennifer> Opensolaris team outside Sun as unnecessary.

Can everyone please back off on the snarky rhetoric?  Alan was expressing
his opinion, not Sun's.  For better or worse (and most of us agree that
it's better, though at somewhat more cost than hoped), ksh93 is in Solaris
and some bugs are being worked out.

As the technical lead for ON, authority is granted to me to make technical
decisions such as whether ksh93, or certain updates thereto, stay or get
backed out until everything is more stable.  To that end, Casper has agreed
to sponsor Roland's latest fix (for 6807179, the "~" problem), thus helping
the system as a whole continue to improve.  I see this as part of a steady
flow of progress, and have no intentions of backing out the "ksh93 update 1"
that April integrated into build 106 on Roland's behalf.

So please: let's all get back to working on improving Solaris instead of
arguing about it and second-guessing others' intentions.

-- John

http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck

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