Re: New ksh/ksh93 package, half the size, ten times the features!!!!

[Joshuah Hurst <joshhurst@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Joshuah Hurst <joshhurst@gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com>
> Date: 5 November 2013 02:15
> Subject: astksh.2013-10-10 Debian prototype package
> To: Oliver Kiddle <oliver@kiddle.eu>, Oliver Kiddle
> <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>,
> Giovanni Rapagnani <giovanni@ideanet.be>, Phi Debian
> <phi.debian@gmail.com>, WNPP Monitor <lucas@debian.org>
>
>
> I have uploaded a prototype of the new ksh Debian package to
> http://www.nrubsig.org/people/fleyta/debian/ksh/astksh20131010_deb_prototype/ksh_93v-20131010-1_amd64.deb
>
> * Now working parts are:
> - Despite being much more powerful, the binary package should be half
> the size of the current 'unstable' Debian package size
> - The shell is now stable, and we did not find a way to intentionally crash it
> - POSIX builtins, which are fully compatible to GNU coreutils, are
> enabled by default, as Sun did in Opensolaris PSARC/2006/550. This
> brings ksh93 in parity with busybox, minus platform specific builtins,
> like mount(1)
> - The ksh93 test suite, now passes, minus bugs, which are generic on
> all platforms
> - We mostly pass the POSIX shell test suite, minus issues caused by
> Debian Linux itself
> - libast/libdll/libcmd/libsum/libshell.so.1 are shipped by default,
> and go into lib, so that ksh can later be used to do the work of both
> /bin/sh, and busybox
> - AST localization utilities, are now shipped by default, so users can
> generate their own localised shell scripts, using $"..." string
> literals, in their own scripts
> - Documentation is more complete
>
> * Todo:
> - Support more platforms, than just AMD64
> - Find a mentor
> - Integrate feed back
> - Add a default /etc/ksh.kshrc
> - Add binfmt support for compiled shell scripts from shcomp
>
> $ openssl sha1 *
> SHA1(ksh_93v-20131010-1.debian.tar.gz)= 2c9940a40d3cd0de7a11dc57d7f0150a494b21b7
> SHA1(ksh_93v-20131010-1_amd64.deb)= 2ffb260c53852db1de6af536f05964ea4d56c7a2
> SHA1(ksh_93v-20131010.orig.tar.gz)= 0b6b1100a282de622ee59c920f3f2f735806174f
> $ openssl md5 *
> MD5(ksh_93v-20131010-1.debian.tar.gz)= c642d5a59b89181f98b67e5b16536d27
> MD5(ksh_93v-20131010-1_amd64.deb)= fcee4312fd7fd180305a07eb20df1054
> MD5(ksh_93v-20131010.orig.tar.gz)= 97c74d2d07907a870f342f4063099711

Feedback for the (contents of the) package would be very welcome...

Josh