On 22 September 2010 14:25, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:20 +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote: >> On 22 September 2010 12:06, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: >> > On 09/22/10 07:57 PM, Knut Reinert wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Blake >> >> <davidblakeaus...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork? >> >>> >> >> >> >> Given the ongoing BSD'tification of Illumos userland utilities I'd say >> >> it may be time to fork. >> > >> > So what to you propose as an alternative to the closed source bits of >> > OpenSolaris? >> >> Well, I see what's already there: Some of the closed utils are already >> there but not enabled in the ON tree: > > sed and tail were done primarily, as I understand it, because of > problems with the ksh93 versions. Nobody has driven forward with the > ksh93 work. There are *easy* things that could be done, > like /usr/bin/printf, with ksh93, but still no integration. > > I did "tr" because I urgently needed a tr fix, and the ksh93 version was > reported to me as being inadequate. > > Note that ksh93 is not necessarily any more POSIX or SYSV compliant for > these utilities than say FreeBSD.
Have you tried to contact Roland Mainz, Olga Cantspellhername or Glenn Fowler about this? Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> Institute Pasteur _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
