Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-10 Thread Roland Mainz
Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Thanks for this project proposal, Roland. You have a seconder, so please > work with Eric to get your project set up. Thanks! ... :-) ... Eric: How do we proceed now ? What information do you need - and how can I help getting the project set up ? Bye, Roland -- _

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-10 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks for this project proposal, Roland. You have a seconder, so please work with Eric to get your project set up. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-dis

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-09 Thread John Plocher
Keith M Wesolowski wrote: Umpf... we really need a mailinglist... Excellent; your project request is seconded. You should hear from the opensolaris.org staff within a few days. They will get your project infrastructure created. Generic question, posed to stimulate discussion: How does/sho

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:29:27PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > Umpf... we really need a mailinglist... > ... this has already been discussed with various proposed solutions, This was not an invitation to discuss the proposals, only a request that the scope of the project be expanded to include t

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Uhm... in theory such a project would be nice but first I'd like to >focus on ksh93 - which is already a quite large beast to handle >(assuming libshell, libc, profile shells, bugfixing and some sort of >backwards-compatibility+migration tools should be handeled, too.). >There will likely some af

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-08 12:41]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > I also wonder if you should propose a modern-cmds project (since folks > > have complained about other specific "old versions") with ksh being > > the first topic. > > Uhm... in theory such a project would be ni

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-07 17:30]: > > - enhancement of Solaris tools to use libshell instead of homegrown > > commandline parsers (like mdb, zfs, xauth etc.) > > - replacement of duplicate ksh versions in various Sun products with > > libshell.so (which is

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Roland Mainz
Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:30:38AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > > > Here comes the requested (mini-) proposal to create a "ksh93 > > integration" project: > > This project should also specifically address the use of ksh88 by libc > (wordexp(3C)) and any other hard d

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-07 17:30]: > - enhancement of Solaris tools to use libshell instead of homegrown > commandline parsers (like mdb, zfs, xauth etc.) > - replacement of duplicate ksh versions in various Sun products with > libshell.so (which is ksh93 as a shared library), i

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:30:38AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > Here comes the requested (mini-) proposal to create a "ksh93 > integration" project: This project should also specifically address the use of ksh88 by libc (wordexp(3C)) and any other hard dependencies on ksh88 identified within Open

[osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-07 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Here comes the requested (mini-) proposal to create a "ksh93 integration" project: The project should investigate and execute the integration of ksh93 and related features, including: - introduction of ksh93 (/usr/bin/nksh and /usr/bin/ksh93 were proposed in the private discussion) - i