[indiana-discuss] scope

[Richard Lowe]

Keith Bierman <Keith.Bierman at Sun.COM> writes:

> On Aug 6, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Josh Hurst wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I hope Indiana is going to set this build flag to 'ksh' by default.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Shipping ksh88 as /bin/ksh in Indiana would be a disaster - first
>> Opensolaris promises to replace the old ksh88 with a far superior
>> ksh93, invests a year of development and then we neglect the promise
>> and work. We'd be in deep dooo-doo if this happens. Neither would it
>> be a good omen for other Opensolaris projects.
>>
>
> I don't think anyone suggested that. The question, as I understood  
> it, was would the thing called ksh be the Solaris traditional one or  
> not (with ksh93 already in as ksh93).
>

Given that the (snipped) list was of components that were both closed
*and* non-redistributable, I would have thought the fact that ksh88 is
hard or impossible to include was obvious.  Given the stated goals
regarding redistributability.

That said, I want no part of yet another foolish ksh93 based argument,
so tag, you're it. :-)

-- Rich