On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:34:36 +0200 Josh Hurst wrote:
> Unfortunately I have to add a general note here:
> I am more and more shocked that such trivial items need to be debated
> at all. I am observing the ksh93 integration project nearly since the
> beginning and I have to question whether or not really all the
> bureaucracy is needed. I think Sun and the Open Solaris team should
> discuss options to streamline the integration process for all new
> projects and the bureaucracy needed during project evolution.
> The current process has become unbearable.
"trivial" is hard to measure
one byte edits can bring whole systems down
"just because bash/linux does it" etc is not persuasive enough to
change ~20 year ingrained semantics
these are the issues I'm engaging here
I wasn't aware I had a bureaucratic hat ...
when people exec ksh *some* will expect ksh semantics and not bash
those that want a bash slant to ksh are free to do so in $ENV or .profile
those that want other slants are also free to do so there
for newbie guidance why not provide a time honored, commented default .profile
"# this sets the default edit mode to emacs ..."
"ENV=$HOME/feel-like-bash-and-linux.sh # ..."
-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
^^^^
not sun
