2020.0.0: test suite is failing about ast HOT 8 CLOSED

FWIW: This is an unsupported, experimental, discontinued version.

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Bu that is latest version.

So which one should I use?

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Please see #1466 for an explanation of what happened with ksh2020.

This repo only provides the AT&T-released versions, specifically ksh93u+, and is only minimally supported. I don't know if ksh2020 is actively supported or not.

You need to search for forks of this repo to find active support.

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So it means that ast ksh is dead?? .. I do not understand why it happened and all changes have been moved to branch. Some legal reasons?

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@kloczek: as @gordonwoodhull said, please read up on the reasons in #1466 and links therein. ast ksh definitely is not dead. ksh2020 just went off in an ultimately different direction and has stalled since (AFAIK).

maybe also look at

https://github.com/ksh-community

which aims at maintaining ksh93 proper in the future. so if you see a bug in ksh93u+ (not in ksh2020 alone...), please report it there.

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Thanks @jghub. As described in the linked issue and other issues, we at AT&T decided that the ksh2020 branch, maintained by external contributors, was not going in a direction which we could support.

We also do not have the resources to actively support this repo, as all of the original authors have left the company.

So we reverted this repo to the last stable AT&T version, and invited the community to fork.

There were basically two factions - one wanted to maintain ksh93u+, and another wanted ksh2020. We invited each to go their own way.

The History section of the KornShell Wikipedia page is a good overview.

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Still I do not understand cureewnt situation.

A lot of good work on the code has been done and now all that looks like have been rolled back on master.

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I feel that I have explained this. Please read the other issues for more info.

Yes, we rolled back master on this repo. If you want ksh2020 you could look at this fork of the repo, as linked in #1466 (which I guess you still have not read).

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