[ksh93-integration-discuss] Announcing: ksh93-integration project web page now open...

[Roland Mainz]

Hi!

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The ksh93-integration project web page is now live at:

   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/

We have an overview of the project goals, pointers to the mailinglist
(http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/), the
original ksh93 documentation
(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/docs/ksh93r/)
and the various source code repositories
(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/source/) on the
page. There will be more material posted in the coming weeks.

Our mailing list for all discussions is:
   ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org

(please subscribe before posting, the mailman interface for that can be
found at
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss)

Please join us and contribute to the discussion on the future of the
Korn Shell in OpenSolaris.

* What are we are doing ?

The ksh93-integration project should investigate and execute the
integration of the Korn Shell version 93 (ksh93) and related
features, including:
  * Introduction of ksh93 (/usr/bin/nksh and /usr/bin/ksh93 were
    proposed until /usr/bin/ksh will be updated to ksh93)
  * Introduction of libshell.so (see below)
  * Investigate the migration of /usr/bin/ksh to the standard version
    of ksh93
  * Investigate changes required for ksh93 to replace the standard
    POSIX shell /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.
  * Discussion/bugfixing of Solaris-specific ksh93 bugs+fixes
  * Enhancement of Solaris tools to use libshell instead of homegrown
    commandline parsers (like zfs, xauth etc.)
  * Ensure backwards compatibility (for example via keeping the old
    version of Solaris ksh around as /usr/bin/oksh)
  * Replacement of duplicate ksh versions in various Sun products with
    libshell.so (which is ksh93 as a shared library), including dbx
    and dtksh
       
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Bye,
Roland

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