[indiana-discuss] scope

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Jonathan Edwards wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 11:36, Josh Hurst wrote:
>
>> On 8/8/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:
>>> Keith Bierman wrote:
>>>> So if the goal is to make not yet Solaris users maximally at home,
>>>> shouldn't the default be bash?
>>> 
>>> bash is the default for user accounts added with the GUI.
>> 
>> Which GUI?
>
> the User Account Editor
>
>>> I presume the flamage here is based on the default for the root account.
>> 
>> The flamage here is based on /bin/sh. /bin/sh is a the Bourne shell
>> (not BourneAgainShell aka bash), creating pain for those who want to
>> port or write applications for Solaris.
>
> why not just make it an install option:
> /bin/sh?
> [  ] Bourne
> [  ] Korn
> [  ] Bourne Again
> [  ] C
> [  ] Zoidberg


However (per my other messages today) in reality if something like that
were done (as the design of things stands now) it'd be way more
generalized. Something like this perhaps...

Userland flavor:
   [  ] GNU
   [  ] POSIX


Eric