Can someone can help us sort this out? Jenny
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Moinak Ghosh <moin...@gmail.com> Date: Apr 21, 2008 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [belenix-dev] Belenix lacks innovation for developers To: BeleniX Development <belenix-dev at opensolaris.org> Cc: Jennifer Pioch <piochjennifer at googlemail.com> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:17 AM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jennifer, > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Jennifer Pioch > <piochjennifer at googlemail.com> wrote: > > http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=news says "Ksh93 > > bundled in. This is not yet the default /bin/sh or ksh but will become > > the default in 0.6.1.", yet in 0.7 /sbin/sh -c 'echo ${.sh.version}' > > echos "Bad substitution". > > > > I find this very disappointing that Belenix still lacks the greatest > > innovation in Opensolaris for developers - /sbin/sh and /bin/sh > > updated to ksh93 - since Opensolaris was founded. > > > > BeleniX is focussed on being a fine LiveCD. ksh93 has a small foot > print and with the right choice of builtins is likely to be a good > choice. We are *for* using it as the default system shell. > To summarize, it was just because of lack of time. We have day jobs and do this in our free time. So this will be taken care of in 0.7.1. Please note that /usr/bin/ksh *is* ksh93 in 0.7. Regards, Moinak. -- Jennifer Pioch, Uni Frankfurt
