[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: 2007/035 ksh93 Amendments

[Roland Mainz]

April Chin wrote:
[snip]
> > Aside: For those who don't know, I personally view the FSH document to
> > be one of the
> > worst specifications ever created, but there are zelots out there who
> > think it was
> > written on stone tablets.  Sigh,...
> > > If the interface stability level of the shared libraries listed in
> > > PSARC/2006/550 (libshell, libast, libdll, and libcmd) is promoted from
> > > Project Private, the stability of the /usr/ast/bin components listed
> > > below should be promoted to at least the same level, to allow
> > > consumers of the former to build the appropriate message files.
> > >
> > This isn't declarative.  It starts with "If".  Are the promoted, and if
> > so, to what?
> >
> > Volatile I guess, but it needs to be explicit.
> > > Interface           Description                             Stability
> > > ---------           -----------                             ---------
> > > /usr/lib/libpp.so.1 AT&T ANSI C preprocessor library        Project Private
> > >
> > Why is this interesting to list?  (No harm, but I fear I might be
> > missing something.)
> > > A new package for AST (Advanced Software Technology) developer tools,
> > > SUNWastdev, will be created, which includes all of the above
> > > message-building components. These tools have a dependency on ksh93
> > > and its libraries, as listed in PSARC/2006/550, and shall not be
> > > integrated before the Korn Shell 93 Integration project.
> > >
> > What Metacluster is this package to be added to?
> 
> We would like to add this to the Developer cluster, since it needs
> to be installed onto build machines.

Alternatively we could ask gatekeepers what they prefer (CC:'ing
gatekeeper at onnv.eng.sun.com)... they're likely the first victims if we
get this wrong... ;-(

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Bye,
Roland

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