On 6-Nov-07, at 1:10 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities to >> apply. > > Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause a huge class > of potential Solaris users to be confused and irritated and many of > them will walk away. > > The choice seems obvious to me. -Tim
I disagree. People willing to try the platform will be capable of understanding that there will be differences. These differences will be no more and no less confusing than the differences between gnu/ linux distro classes themselves ( I use 'class' here to mean those derived from redhat, debian, gentoo, slackware, etc... major root level distros that others derive from ). Should we seek to change all of opensolaris around and introduce incompatible changes and functional/standards regressions just to try to possibly appease some potential non-code-contributing GNU/Linux users? I would argue that the price of that is far too high and if we go that path we may as well pack up and start shipping a linux distro rather than opensolaris, because everything that makes opensolaris great will have been sacrificed at the altar. Note that I'm not arguing here that we shouldn't make OpenSolaris more comfortable for new users and immigrants, but breaking it is not the method to go about this. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
