About dtksh / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] some questions about ksh93 integration

[Alan Coopersmith]

[I'm just back from a week vacation, so pardon me if it seems I'm
  resurrecting week-old threads.]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> I completely agree. There is one thing which may require some
> communication within Sun... currently it seems that if any customer asks
> for ksh93 they get redirected to "dtksh"... which is... uhm... not
> really usefull (it's based on an alpha version of "ksh93d" and it's
> ksh93 basis was never updated since then (except some cosmetic work)).

That's probably because that's the workaround listed in the old "we want
ksh93" RFE - I doubt support would know dtksh was a ksh93-variant if it
wasn't there.

> It may be nice if Sun support would either suggest to "... build ksh93
> from source..." (for Solaris <= 9) OR redirect them to
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/ (for Solaris >=
> 10) ... but avoid the suggestion to use "dtksh" in any case...

We can't control what support says, but if we put those into the workaround
of the ksh93 RFE, it's much more likely that's what support will tell the
customers who ask.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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