James Carlson wrote: > Dave Miner writes: >>> The other poster who mentioned patches on unbundled software was >>> on-target, though. Since that *is* possible, and since those sorts of >>> patches may not be going away soon, I think we have an obligation to >>> get pdo.c out there. >>> >> I think we have a Solaris product requirement to provide a utility which >> can apply those patches, and an OpenSolaris requirement to make the >> source for that utility available. Doesn't have to be pdo, could be >> something else. Which one we choose seems fairly bound up in the >> compatibility story, which clearly isn't baked yet. > > If it isn't pdo.c, I'd wager that it'll take longer to release, as you > have to develop it first. >
Might be. We might also just declare pdo the evolutionary dead-end that it looks like to me, and go back to the pure ksh code as a working base. That probably wouldn't take any more time to open-source, and I suspect could advance more quickly. Dave
