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On 9/18/2014 11:44, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>
> I'm looking for any volunteers to take over
> maintainership of the following packages: mksh

I'm also somewhat interested in this one.  I've never been a Korn shell 
user, but I recently learned about mksh and its place in Bourne family 
shell history. [1]  Only a ksh93 package would be more valuable, but 
until someone adopts that, I think mksh still has a place in Cygwin.

More questions:

1. Where is the source package?  setup.exe doesn't offer it.

2. Have you cygported it yet?  I built it from the official tarball, and 
while it has a primitive non-Autotools build system, it looks compatible 
with cygport.

3. Other than time, is there a reason you haven't released R50b yet?  It 
seems to pass its own test suite here, so if I adopt it, I'm committing 
to releasing R50b shortly, unless there are traps I haven't discovered.

4. What do you think about replacing mksh in Cygwin with ksh93?  It 
seems OSS-enough to make Red Hat happy. [2]


[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/145522/#145524
[2]: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ksh

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