>Various people, though, may have positions. I agree with Casper that >the best way forward is to develop a transition that breaks nothing >that anyone would ever notice. At least with my ARC hat on, I'd be >more than willing to listen to arguments that one or another bit of >breakage is "not important" compared with getting a more modern shell. >But someone needs to do the work of figuring out what that breakage >is, whom it would affect, how, and documenting all of that as a >proposed project.
And keeping in mind the substantial body of ksh scripts Sun uses internall (patchadd/patchrm and many others) which are very hairy and have required fixes to ksh in the past. (Trying to prevent people upgrading ksh and then not being able to install the patchadd/patchrm stuff) Of course, ksh* compatibility for scripts is something we can provide an easy workaround for, as long as we ship both the old and the new ksh as you can edit the first line of each script. Then, of course, we need to make "pfksh93" as well or perhaps defined a better mechanism which allows for pfanysh without any binary changes to a shell. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
