On 22 September 2010 14:43, Michael Kerpan <mjker...@kerpan.com> wrote: > Frankly, I don't see why none of the forks/sporks/distros floating > around are looking at the modernized, more-featureful versions of the > System V tools available from the Heirloom Tools project. IIRC, most > of them are even CDDL-licensed (as OpenSolaris code was a starting > point for most of them) so they should fit right in with the rest of > the code. If I had the time and energy to do so, I'd go ahead and make > such a distro myself, but I don't, so I guess I'm left wondering why > everyone is looking only at the options of either moving to a BSD or > GNU userland, rather than the superior options of using what is > essentially an enhanced version of what already exists.
Opensolaris was essentially following the IMO superior option of picking up the ATT AST utilities., the same upstream where ksh93 comes from. They are based on the System V utilities but evolved independently of Solaris, picked up almost all useful features from GNU and BSD along the way and are developed and tested actively on many platforms, including compatibility testing on Solaris. A lot of the utilities are available as libcmd built ins in ksh93, giving them a major advantage in terms of resource savings and performance. I do not understand why Illumos is discontinuing the cooperation with ATT AST. Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> Institute Pasteur _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
