From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 23 9:30:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A3B37B401 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE4DF43E31 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:30:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17X2YZ-0001Eg-00; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:30:39 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6NFXXP4051790 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:33:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6NFXXUi051789 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:33:33 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:33:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200207231315.g6NDFCKB059227@dotar.thuvia.org> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Valentine wrote: > ksh93 would also help the standards effort. ksh93 has an unacceptable license. The legalese is impenetrable, but it appears you can't redistribute the source without the receiver explicitly acknowledging the license; AT&T can revoke the license; etc. This was clearly written by corporate lawyers in a mindset entirely different from that of the Open Source community. (ksh93 also ships with an idiosyncratic build system from hell. They try to be ultra-portable, but the result is extremely fickle and the port keeps breaking. We can't run the regression tests against the compiled excutable unless somebody dives even further into the mess of AT&T's parallel code universe, but I suspect if we could the results would be discouraging. Speaking as the maintainer of the port, I certainly advise against people using ksh93 for anything serious.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message