[ksh93-integration-discuss] Extending Makefile.ksh93switch for /bin/sh?

[Roland Mainz]

Martin Schaffstall wrote:

[CC:'ing April to get her opinion on that...]

> On 7/21/06, Josh Hurst <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Roland,
> >
> > would it be possible to extend the functionality of
> > Makefile.ksh93switch in your ksh93 prototype a little and add an
> > option to install ksh93 as /bin/sh, too?
> 
> +1
> 
> Question to the sun.com people: Could we run a "/bin/sh migration to
> POSIX sh (=ksh93)" project in parallel to this one or will it be
> better to run it as a followup to the ksh93 migration?

Well, some stuff which we will discuss during the attempt to convince
Sun to update /usr/bin/ksh to ksh93 status in Solaris will apply to
/bin/sh, too. However this migration is already HIGHLY controversical
with high resistance within Sun so I would expect that an attempt to get
/bin/sh migrated will likely result in a bloodshed. The advantages would
be huge... but I doubt that this will happen for Solaris in the
forseeable future. OpenSolaris distributions may choose a different path
here...

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Bye,
Roland

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