[indiana-discuss] Dear Ian, why was /sbin/sh not updated to ksh93?

[Brandorr]

On 11/1/07, Chris Pickett <pkchris at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Glenn Lagasse <Glenn.Lagasse at sun.com> wrote:
> > * Chris Pickett (pkchris at users.sourceforge.net) wrote:
> > > This message is for Ian Murdock, the Indiana project leader. Please
> > > restrain yourself from replying until Ian did.
> > >
> > > Mr. Murdock, what is the justification for not updating /sbin/sh to
> > > ksh93? I filed myself CR 6551714 which was fixed in B65. This was the
> > > last bug which blocked the update of /sbin/sh to ksh93. Since B65 I am
> > > using ksh93 as /sbin/sh and it works. Why was the Indiana preview not
> > > able to just replace /sbin/sh with /usr/bin/i386/ksh93?
> >
> > This is explained quite clearly at:
> >
> > http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/why_indiana_uses_bash
>
> As said, I don't swallow that. You had plenty time to copy
> /usr/bin/i86/ksh93 to /sbin/sh.

Chris, knowing the people involved in actually doing the work in
building Indiana, I can say that I don't feel this particular decision
is in anyway a deliberate action to promote bash over ksh93. It is, as
I like to call it, a strawman that is meant to be discussed,
criticized and changed.

The issue as I see it is, is that by having Sun call Indiana
OpenSolaris, it presumes that bash is now the default shell for
"OpenSolaris".  Callling Indiana OpenSolaris at this point, without
community consensus, was a mistake. This perception needs to be
corrected, by reversing that decision.

-Brian

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