James Carlson wrote:
[snip] 
> > > These are all needed for ksh93.
> > No. You can link them statically.
> 
> As long as there's no other use for them, I'd be fine with having them
> static.  I'm not opposed to that at all.

Please note that we already have followups and the matching patches
ready which will use libshell&&libcmd in OS/Net. The libraries are
really needed and I consider them mandatory for the success of this
project.

> > There would be no need for any of
> > these libraries. There is no need for ksh93 in ON either. You could
> > put it into sfw. Or you could download it from blastwave. They have a
> > ksh93 package. But you want ksh93 in ON.
> 
> No, I don't.
> 
> I want it in Solaris.  Having it in SFW would be *fine*.

This is an issue which I am not happy about. We already burried this
issue and I already said it VERY clear that this project will have to
seek a new lead when this happens (just to explain what I think about
this "ksh93 from SWF" idea).

> It solves
> the problem of integrating it, provided that we don't care about the
> built-in duplication (and divergence) problem.

It doesn't solve issues like getting a stable API as basis for future
projects nor does SWF do detailed testing. The current ksh93-integration
prototype002 codebase even runs the AT&T ksh93 test suite as part of the
normal built to GURANTEE that the ksh93 binary shipped in OS/Net is
compatible with the version provided by upstream and conforms to some
basic POSIX shell functionalities.

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Bye,
Roland

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