[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Need your input on safemodeboot archive in Indiana

[Roland Mainz]

Dave Miner wrote:
> Bruno Jargot wrote:
> > I wasn't referring to a different shell. I was *shocked* that Sun
> > deliberately ignores one of the highest ranking requests issued by the
> > community.
> 
> "Ignore" can be such a pejorative term.  Yes, a number of people here
> seem to have an inexhaustible interest in discussing shells, but our
> assessment of changing /bin/sh's general importance to the success of
> our efforts doesn't place it high enough to expend resources at this
> time.  If you leave it to "Sun" to do the work you're probably going to
> continue to be disappointed for quite some time.  I'd encourage working
> with Roland and the ksh93 team to sort out the work necessary and
> contribute there.

See
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-December/004147.html
- AFAIK the ToDo list would look like this:
1. Move ksh93 libraries (e.g. libshell, libcmd, libdll, libsum and
libast) to the root filesystem and add /sbin/ksh93 as part of an ARC
case
2. Find an OpenSolaris distribution (like Indiana etc.) which changes
/sbin/sh to ksh93 (the reason for that is described in
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-December/004147.html)
3. Implement ToDo list (e.g. migration tools, documentation, fix bugs
etc.)
4. Run the official ARC case for OpenSolaris

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Bye,
Roland

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