Darren J Moffat writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > That one is still murky.  If there are no highly-fluid dependencies on
> > the rest of ON (i.e., vast tracts of private interfaces that change
> > frequently), then there's nothing that binds ksh to ON.  It would seem
> > to have a much greater affinity to SFW, as that's where it's generally
> > acceptable to have your own non-ON build style, use non-default
> > compilers if you want, do testing right in the middle of the build
> > process (rather than in the test gate where it belongs), and so on.
> 
> The fact that this cases intends to add the b_*() interfaces into libcmd 
> seems to indicate that it might need to be in ON or the existing libcmd 
> needs to move out of ON.  You can't deliver parts of a library from two 
> separate consolidations.

One could reasonably move libcmd out of ON along with ksh.  That's
essentially what I assumed, as the only other interfaces there are Sun
Private, highly static, and trivial.

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