Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:31:54 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> 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: <200207162331.g6GNVsCa053104@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <20020716223107.GC29859@gits.dyndns.org>
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> 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. > 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? Is pdksh the best implementation available to us? Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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