[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

[Shawn Walker]

On Feb 13, 2008 1:21 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Brian Nitz <Brian.Nitz at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >
> >> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >>> Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>    o ksh93 is the default *system* shell (bash remains the default
> >>>>      user shell)
> >>>>
> >>> What do you understand by "*system* shell"?
>
> My fault for not figuring out the right terminology.
>
> > Let me asume that you are talking abut /sbin/sh and /bin/sh.
> >
> > Changing this to ksh93 will break compatibility.
> >
> > BTW: I vote against allowing to replace /sbin/sh by something different than a
> > 100% compatible Bourne shell for distributions that like to use the OpenSolaris
> > trademark.
>
> Remember, this is a developer preview - so we're using these releases to figure
> things out, and understand more about the system.

Not only that, it is valuable to figuring out *what* incompatibilities exist.

Remember, compatibility can be broken as long as there is a well
though-out plan for dealing with it.

In some cases, that means restoring certain aspects of compatibility
in others it means ignoring incorrectly written programs that don't
follow the documentation and should have never worked anyway.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben