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


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.
	Igor
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