astksh review

Elfyn McBratney elfyn@ubertales.co.uk
Mon May 19 18:47:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Dario Alcocer wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:09:46AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > I created the ksh symlink so users wouldn't have to edit their shebang 
> > lines to point to `/bin/pdksh' but now we have the proper ksh (available) 
> > I suppose I could get rid of it. What's the feeling?
> > 
> > We could do one of
> > 
> >   1. Remove the ksh symlink from the pdksh package.
> >   2. Rename ksh.exe (in astksh) to astksh.exe and have a ksh symlink to
> >      astksh.exe
> >   3. Maybe only two options. :-)
> > 
> > these?
> 
> How about:
>     4. Deprecate the pdksh package.
> 
> Now that we have the real, honest-to-goodness ksh, do we really need
> pdksh? Just a suggestion...

If someone wants to remove the package it's cool by me, I'll still keep it 
around, though. pdksh is light weight and fit's my (not so fully blown) 
needs. :-)

Elfyn

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Elfyn McBratney
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