pdksh package proposal

[Pavel Tsekov]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, 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.

I agree with you. Maybe a symlink is an option ?

I've also looked at how OpenBSD handles this, since they have pdksh 
installed as ksh by default. If the ast-ksh port is used, the binary is 
installed as ksh93. But this doesn't seem to solve the problem you 
describe.