On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, I. Szczesniak <iszczesn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> wrote:
>>> Seriously, what is this? Another attempt to sabotage
>>> or stall the
>>> project? I'm seriously getting fed up with
>>> Sun^H^H^HOracle's constant
>>> bantering and slowness related to this project.
>>> They've been dozens of
>>> commits in onnv-notify in the last weeks and I don't
>>> understand why
>>> this project should be the only one affected.
>>>
>>
>> While I don't know anything you don't, it wouldn't be at all
>> unusual to freeze everything other than fairly serious bug
>> fixes if trying to get something out the door like, say,
>> OpenSolaris 2010.xx. I think something similar has happened
>> in the past on some occasions.
>
> This does not explain why John Beck said that 'conversion of any *new*
> utilities to ksh93 is on hold. Bug fixes in ksh93, its libraries, and
> previously converted utilities are all welcome.'. Take one piece and
> ignore the other, even if it has important security bug fixes?
>
> This is very unusual and does not fit into the categories encountered
> before. My gut tells me that something big is going on and that it's a
> turn for the worse. Could be simple administrative reason as you say.
> Or they "go fully GNU", replace the tools in /usr/bin with GNU
> coreutils and kill this project's future. That would be very likely
> the end of this project.
> It puzzles me what Oracle told Olga that she started to avoid
> questions. Roland would've never done this.
I don't believe Solaris 11 is "going fully GNU". Or should be.
/usr/gnu/bin has been a quality disaster (compared to the AST commands
and many of the Solaris 10 commands) and replacing /usr/bin commands
with the code from GNU coreutils would mark the end of an independent,
innovative and quality-oriented user land command set.
It would be madness from Oracle to attempt to "go fully GNU".
Chris
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