On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:58:13PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > And we have /usr/xpg[46]/bin/vi for that, don't we? Bram apparently got > > the POSIX tests run on vim a couple of years ago, and it had about a dozen > > failures, most of them in ex, not vi. (:help posix in vim) > > I suppose I misinterpreted the goal of "replacing" Solaris vi. If > those remain, then I agree that it's much less of a problem.
It could be done either way, certainly. > I somewhat agree with that, but at the same time, it seems a bit > strange to be driving an even bigger wedge between the POSIX > compliance and "regular" Solaris, when many of us would also like to > see those differences disappear. Yep. It'd be interesting to see where vim 7 is w.r.t. POSIX compliance, and to see what kind of effort it would take to make it fully (or sufficiently?) compliant, and resubmit those change to Bram. At any rate, I would have no problem (and I don't think the ARC would have much of a problem) with a project that simply delivered /usr/bin/vim (and the other non-conflicting executables), and left everything else to a future project. Danek _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
