On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:30 +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote: >> 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? > > > Roland and Olga seem to have stopped responding to all e-mails. I have > not reached out to Glenn. (I think Roland and Olga were having some > personal difficulties -- I have been hoping they would show up again, > but I've not heard from them in over a month.)
I can help. I'll send you a PM. Irek _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
