Martin Schaffstall wrote: [CC:'ing April to get her opinion on that...]
> On 7/21/06, Josh Hurst <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Roland, > > > > would it be possible to extend the functionality of > > Makefile.ksh93switch in your ksh93 prototype a little and add an > > option to install ksh93 as /bin/sh, too? > > +1 > > Question to the sun.com people: Could we run a "/bin/sh migration to > POSIX sh (=ksh93)" project in parallel to this one or will it be > better to run it as a followup to the ksh93 migration? Well, some stuff which we will discuss during the attempt to convince Sun to update /usr/bin/ksh to ksh93 status in Solaris will apply to /bin/sh, too. However this migration is already HIGHLY controversical with high resistance within Sun so I would expect that an attempt to get /bin/sh migrated will likely result in a bloodshed. The advantages would be huge... but I doubt that this will happen for Solaris in the forseeable future. OpenSolaris distributions may choose a different path here... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
