On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:30 +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> On 22 September 2010 14:25, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:20 +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> >> On 22 September 2010 12:06, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote:
> >> > On 09/22/10 07:57 PM, Knut Reinert wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Blake
> >> >> <davidblakeaus...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Hello,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork?
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> Given the ongoing BSD'tification of Illumos userland utilities I'd say
> >> >> it may be time to fork.
> >> >
> >> > So what to you propose as an alternative to the closed source bits of
> >> > OpenSolaris?
> >>
> >> Well, I see what's already there: Some of the closed utils are already
> >> there but not enabled in the ON tree:
> >
> > sed and tail were done primarily, as I understand it, because of
> > problems with the ksh93 versions. Nobody has driven forward with the
> > ksh93 work. There are *easy* things that could be done,
> > like /usr/bin/printf, with ksh93, but still no integration.
> >
> > I did "tr" because I urgently needed a tr fix, and the ksh93 version was
> > reported to me as being inadequate.
> >
> > Note that ksh93 is not necessarily any more POSIX or SYSV compliant for
> > these utilities than say FreeBSD.
>
> Have you tried to contact Roland Mainz, Olga Cantspellhername or Glenn
> Fowler about this?
Roland and Olga seem to have stopped responding to all e-mails. I have
not reached out to Glenn. (I think Roland and Olga were having some
personal difficulties -- I have been hoping they would show up again,
but I've not heard from them in over a month.)
- Garrett
>
> Ced
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