[ITP] mksh-R31b-1 -- Enhanced version of the Korn shell

[Igor Peshansky]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:52:39AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:56:41AM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >> >>>>>> Jari Aalto writes:
> >> >
> >> >    > Included in Debian stable (etch). This is nice lighweight
> >> >    > almost-bash-like shell.
> >> >
> >> >    >   http://packages.debian.org/mksh
> >> >
> >> >    > Jari
> >> >
> >> >    > sdesc: "Enhanced version of the Korn shell"
> >> >    > ldesc: "A shell which is MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain
> >> >    > Korn shell (pdksh), a bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar to the
> >> >    > original AT&T Korn shell. It includes bug fixes and feature
> >> >    > improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for
> >> >    > interactive and especially script use."
> >> >    > category: Shells
> >> >    > requires: cygwin
> >> >
> >> >    > a) manual
> >> >
> >> >    >   wget        \
> >> >    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/setup.hint \
> >> >    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/mksh-R31b-1-src.tar.bz2
> >> >
> >> >Binary package missing.
> >>
> >> I wasn't paying attention.  Do we really want two versions of ksh in the
> >> distribution?
> >>
> >> I'd say this was Igor's call.
> >
> >We've had this discussion before.  The last message was
> ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-05/msg00024.html>, which never got
> >a reply.
>
> I thought I remembered something like this.
>
> Let's not bother with mksh then.

Actually, let's hope that this time Jari answers my questions...  As I
said, if mksh is a full (and fully compatible) replacement for pdksh, I'm
in favor of getting the newer package into the distro.
	Igor
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