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

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:52:39AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>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.

I thought I remembered something like this.

Let's not bother with mksh then.

cgf