pdksh package proposal

[Max Bowsher]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:27:32PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>> 4. I see that the binary package includes /usr/bin/ksh.exe. It may be
>> better to renamed this to /usr/bin/pdksh.exe, just in case someone
>> packages AT&T's ksh for Cygwin.
>
> Hmm, I disagree.  pdksh should be used as a ksh substitute and I'd
> expect to run my scripts w/o having to change the shebang line to be
> `#!/bin/pdksh' for all my ksh scripts.
>
> However, this is just *my* opinion.

And, based on the messages when AT&T ksh was possibly going to be packaged
for Cygwin, it was a big job. (Multiple support packages required). So, we
should get sufficient warning to avoid the problem, *if* it ever occurs.


Max.