Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-04 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Shivakumar. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, gns wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True. Busybox is not a potion that will deliver Solaris-based appliances, but it is a necessary step in that direction. The ability to build a compact modular shell and reduced features libc to operate in constrained environments is a

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a framework to build compact versions of existing software. Since ksh93 is going to be included into OpenSolaris and since it by design provides a lot of the modularity that is required, it is the shell selected for this project.

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bruno Jargot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, We discussed this beforehand. The Bourne shell does not support internationalisation, localisation, This is definitely wrong. POSIX conformance, lacks an adequate user interface, has no plug in interface and imposes a very Missing POSIX

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread I. Szczesniak
On 4/2/07, gns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/04/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Jargot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, We discussed this beforehand. The Bourne shell does not support internationalisation, localisation, This is definitely wrong. If it is wrong, state how and why please. Missing POSIX

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/04/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Jargot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, We discussed this beforehand. The Bourne shell does not support internationalisation, localisation, This is definitely wrong. If it is

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread William James
On 4/2/07, gns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread William James
On 4/3/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/04/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Jargot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, We discussed this beforehand. The Bourne shell does not support internationalisation,

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
William James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We discussed this beforehand. The Bourne shell does not support internationalisation, localisation, This is definitely wrong. If it is wrong, state how and why please. I thought this should be a well known fact. Please look at

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/04/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/04/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Jargot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, We discussed this beforehand. The Bourne shell does not support internationalisation,

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread James Carlson
William James writes: /bin/sh itself is localised but it does not support localisation of shell scripts. Please look at the source to verify before trolling. Not sure what support necessarily means here. /bin/sh seems to have little trouble exec'ing /usr/bin/gettext, which is one way to set up

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We discussed this beforehand. The Bourne shell does not support internationalisation, localisation, This is definitely wrong. If it is wrong, state how and why please. I thought this should be a well known fact. Please look at

[osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread gns
Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should also be useful in the appliance domain.

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/04/07, gns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Bruno Jargot
On 4/2/07, gns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 +1 Bruno Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread James Carlson
gns writes: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should also be useful in the

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gns writes: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Moinak Ghosh
James Carlson wrote: gns writes: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should also

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Joerg Schilling wrote: James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gns writes: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup