Josh Hurst wrote:
> Please understand that I am trying to start a generalized discussion
> whether all this bureaucracy is REQUIRED. No other Open Source project
> requires this kind of excessive bureaucracy overhead. We can either
> discuss this here, in opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org or in the
> CAB list.
> I do not feel very well that I have to kickstart this discussion but I
> think the excessive delays in the ksh93 integration project are no
> longer bearable and require at least a look at the general process
Although the discussion has seemed a bit drawn out at times (people need
time to get up-to-speed on the details), note that probably the best
decisions were made with the following issues:
+ libcmd.so retained its name to be compatible with upstream
+ the existing Solaris libcmd.so was killed ("must die")
+ libcmd.so was put into /usr/lib rather than /lib
+ filters were added to libcmd.so for compatibility safety
I think that the ARC review enhanced the quality of the integration in
at least these issues and maybe some other issues as well. These
decisions were best for both KSH and existing Solaris sensibilities.
When one has waited more than a decade to get KSH-93 integrated
into Solaris (as shipped, rather than added in by the administrator),
these discussions actually start to appear to be great progress!! :-)
Dave Morano
morano at computer.org
