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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:57:15 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
To:        Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scripting language in base system?
Message-ID:  <20020717075715.GA10590@gits.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:31:54AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote:
> > From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
> > Date: Wed 17 Jul, 2002
> > Subject: Re: scripting language in base system?
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:24:38PM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote:
> > > Hm, Evil Thought: dynamically loadable shell builtins, anyone?
> > > 
> > > Maybe not very pretty (see wksh for an example of extending ksh
> > > to embrace the X Toolkit API, albeit statically), but perhaps with
> > > the addition of a real list data type (which is about all Tcl needs),
> > > it might be useful.
> > 
> > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/tksh/
> 
> Neat.  It looks like it's annoyingly close to being free, too.

yes, I know. it depends on AT&T ksh implementation.

> > Q: in the mean time, how about to switch to pdksh as OpenBSD does ?
> 
> Is this going to become necessary to get a more standards-conformant shell?

some month ago, I've workded a lot on sh code to make it more SUSv3
compliant in some part but I don't have submitted my changes yet, I
I need to validate them before...

> Is pdksh the best implementation available to us?

I've worked on both code. a little on pdksh one and a lot on sh one.
in one word, pdksh code really looks less ugly than our sh code :(

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net

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