Importing mksh in base

[Baptiste Daroussin]

Le 25 janvier 2019 18:41:51 GMT+01:00, Adam <amvandemore at gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:58 AM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I would like to import mksh in base, https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
>> And make it the default root shell (not necessary in one step)
>>
>> Why:
>> 1/ it is tiny 400k (in the packaged version) all other shells fitting
>the
>> expectation are bigger
>> 2/ it's default frontend in interactive mode is very close to what
>most
>> people
>> are used to with bash and shells as default root shell on other BSD
>and
>> most
>> linuxes
>> 3/ from my narrow window csh as a default root shell is one of the
>major
>> complaint (usually the first thing a user get faced to) from new
>comers and
>> also for some long timers who are reinstalling a machine and have not
>yet
>> installed/configured a bourne compatible shell
>>
>> What this proposal is _NOT_ about:
>> 1/ the removal of tcsh from base
>> 2/ any kid of denial of the quality and interest or features of csh
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Best regards,
>> Bapt
>>
>
>I do not wish to have a bash like root shell since imo its interactive
>mode
>isn't that great.  I don't think conformity is a great argument for
>change
>in this regard.  I don't see any other advantage to this change.  I
>could
>be wrong but I also think it might be incorrect to say bash is the
>default
>root shell on other BSD's.


I am not saying bash is the default but bourne like shell on openbsd for instance it is a variant or ksh which mksh is a fork of, for example

>
>If there is some change to the root shell, I'd rather see it to be zsh
>which does have a good interactive mode.

zsh is big and evolving quickly, imho not a good candidate for base