2008/344 [ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments 1]

[Roland Mainz]

Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> Glenn Skinner wrote:
[snip]
> >     ## Part 1.1: Update of ksh93
> >     The 1.1 portion of this project is the update of ksh93 from
> >     ast-ksh.2007-12-15 to ast-ksh-2008-05-22 which marks the update
> >     from ksh93 version 's+' to version 't-' (AST/ksh93 uses the
> >     (latin) alphabet for its version number, e.g.  version 'a',
> >     version 'b' etc.  ; the '+'/'-' means the stabilty status, e.g.
> >     '-' means its "alpha", no suffix means its "stable" (e.g.  ready
> >     for production usage) and '+' means its a bugfixed stable version
> >     etc.).
> >
> > Are we to infer from this nomenclature description that ksh's
> > stability level is decreasing as part of this case?
> 
> I read it as "we don't integrate '-' versions into Solaris".  Did I
> guess right?

Grumpf... IMO it depends what the '-' means - see
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2008-May/006127.html
for the testing we do right now for ksh93...

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Bye,
Roland

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