kshdb not compatible with latest ksh

[Matthew-Jenkins]

Hi guys,

So the fedora version of ksh that is packaged was reverted to be inline with upstream. As far as I know it's the same on rhel7 and probably rhel8:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868715
att/ast#1466

As is, kshdb is not compatible with mainline ksh.

[rocky]

As is, kshdb is not compatible with mainline ksh.

Installation checks the version installed. So there is nothing further for us to do here.

As is, kshdb is not compatible with mainline ksh.

If by "mainline" you mean a program that is frozen to one that existed 9 years ago, then yes, that is correct. It doesn't bother me in this least.

kshdb is not compatible with any version of ksh88 nor pdksh or any ksh's older than 7 years ago. These just do not have enough support to provide debugging in a reasonable fashion.

If debugging on that ksh in that important, then feel free to fork the code and try to get it to work.

[Matthew-Jenkins]

The current version being the one frozen from 9 years ago is the mainline version going forward. ksh2020 is going to be used less and less and other distros pick up the revert.

[rocky]

Sure, call it whatever you want.

Again, feel free write whatever debugger you want for that.