Subject: Re: ksh as option for shell [Re: Bash as Option for Shell]
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 10/18/2004 12:37:26
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 05:15:27PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <20040824152852.GA19842@endersgame.net>, Sean Davis writes:
> >As for the chances of real ksh kicking pdksh out, I'm not a NetBSD
> >developer, so I can only say "I dunno, but I hope so. It is the Real
> >Thing(tm) after all."
> 
> I actually sorta like pdksh.  The licensing terms are less restrictive, and
> I don't see any reason to favor one implementation over another just because
> it got there first.

Of course I will bring up bin/26493 again.. (Silly having to fiddle with
autoconf because our pdksh seems to be exactly backwards wrt posix - if
someone would like to explain why it is right, I would like to know...)

Cheers,

Patrick