John Sonnenschein wrote: > 99% of the time what people want isn't GNU tools per se, they want a > specific piece of functionality ( tar -z/-j, tab-completion, etc ), > but some influential members of the community have decided that rather > than improving the solaris userland to make it more accessible, the > proverbial baby ought to be tossed out with the bathwater & we ought > to be doing a full migration to GNU. > > Some of us think that this is a terrible idea, and a sad state of > affairs for an operating system that used to pride itself on > compatibility and succeeded in the marketplace because of that. > It's far, far faster for someone to add the GNU userland code to Solaris than to compatibly modify the existing Solaris code , which is why things are happening that way. If you wish to help out and provide patches, excellent. All of us currently working on Solaris have far more to do than we have time and any assistance would be happily accepted. Suggestions about how we should be doing things given unlimited manpower and time will be considered when such resources become available :-).
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