[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

[Mario Goebbels]

> Fight over nothing? What about those people who worked hard and
> accepted community input? It's a slap in their face, that's it.

ksh93 was ported because people asked for it and there was a long
lingering ARC. That didn't imply instant inclusion. Solaris shipped with
ksh88 since quite some time, ostensibly better than the old Bourne
shell, too. Not default either. No one rose a stink over this, either.

As in that other huge discussion regarding the GNU tools, it's a
preview, a beta, still in development. Things may and will change.

The reason why bash is the default shell currently may as well just be
the same why the GNU tools are preferred in this preview.

If this were the final release, that ignored any community input over
the development, then I might understand that you're upset, but this is
the very first release, not even fully beta.

>> Change your shell
>> with usermod and be happy.
> 
> You can't replace /bin/sh with usermod. I'm writing applications and
> hoped Indiana would upgrade /bin/sh to a modern shell like ksh 93.
> That's why I said this ignorance is a deep disappointment and a bad
> sign for the future of Indina and Opensolaris.

Well, copy it over, symlink it or whatever.

-mg

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