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> In-Reply-To: <200207162331.g6GNVsCa053104@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <20020716223107.GC29859@gits.dyndns.org> <200207162331.g6GNVsCa053104@dotar.thuvia.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. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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