Re: astksh review

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

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 we can have both "less" and "more" in the distro, I think we can easily
have both "pdksh" and "astksh".

<vague_recollections>
Isn't astksh a rather *large* package?
A lighter-weight alternative can be a good thing.
</vague_recollections>




Max.