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Re: ITP: mksh-R39c-1
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:09:46AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Given that pdksh has abandoned, I'm proposing to add mksh as a
>replacement. I realize that Jari Aalto has proposed mksh in the past
>(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-09/msg00021.html), and that
>it was subsequently shot down in favour of pdksh. But given that Igor
>Peshansky has seemed to have moved on, and pdksh is now abandoned, I
>would like to maintain mksh in it's place.
I think that's a fine idea. Too bad setup.exe (and upset for that matter)
doesn't support a Obsoletes: tag.
>Since mksh is distributed as a .cpio.gz archive, and at this point
>cygport does not handle cpio archives, I've had to create my own build
>script, so I would appreciate it if someone could give it the once
>over.
>
>---
>
>wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=3 \
>http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/mksh/mksh-R39c-1.tar.bz2 \
>http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/mksh/mksh-R39c-1-src.tar.bz2 \
>http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/mksh/setup.hint
Doesn't mksh uses ncurses for command line editing and recall? It
isn't listed as a dependency.
cgf