On 06/10/18 01:40, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know the status of the AIX and HPUX ports of CDE? Does
anyone have the hardware and software to test them on?
I don't have the platforms. But I will probably acquire a HP 9000 C8000
workstation. They are still available on e.g. ebay.
Also, requiring ksh to build is a bit of a fault point for many users,
especially the ones on BSDs, how difficult would it be to remove the
requirement for ksh during the build process, using sh instead, and then
when everything is build, use dtksh for installation?
ksh is used throughout CDE, it would be very difficult to replace.
And at the end you still need it for dtksh. So in my opinion its not worth
the effort.
It would be more important to update the ksh93 version in dtksh. The
"build" ksh needs at least ksh93u+ from 2012/08/01. But the dtksh version
is much older (ksh93e from 1996/07/31?).
Unfortunately the update is also a legal problem.
There have already been discussions whether the AT&T license allows the
update.
As far as I know no one has sorted it out finally.
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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