>Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote: > >> After a lengthy discussion, this case was approved during today's PSARC >> meeting. J?rg's issue (the star utility uses -/ to mean something >> different from the way cpio, pax, and tar will use -/) was discussed in >> detail, but PSARC did not find his arguments compelling. > >So let us conclude: > >- There have been no compelling arguments from the people who > filed the ARC case, proving that there is is no better way > to implement this feature.
There is no need to provide such an argument. As long as the architecture is considered sound, there is no need to strive for the optimum. (The best is the enemy of the good) >- Sun no longer cares about long term interface stabiliy. Joerg, please don't make sweeping generlizations like that. As Joe explained, in this particular case there is no departure from an existing interface. >- Sun ignores the OpenSolaris community. No, it does not. PSARC listened to the arguments of both sides but did not feel your arguments were compelling enough. (As explained in Joe's email) >- Some people inside Sun foil a correct ARC review for a bigger > and complex change and bypass the process by plitting the big > change into zillion small changes that are easily to approve. Please Joerg, stop trying to attribute alterior motives to people making changes. A small command line change does not warrant a big ARC case nor is it a hard and fast requirement that all related changes should be in one AC case; often they are not as ARC cases are ammended. >- The ARC commitee needs to be changed or OpenSolaris will die! > If there is not a single non-Sun person from the OpenSolaris > community that is allowed to at least veto decisions, the ARC > decicions do not have the basis that is needed for OpenSolaris. There is NO-ONE who is allowed to VETO decisions; that would not give a workable situation. The ARC consists of relatively senior people with a considerable background in Solaris engienering; as such people have not climbed up through the ranks of OpenSolaris yet as we have just started, there are no non-Sun members to the ARCs. Joerg, even if you had been on PSARC I seriously doubt the outcome would have been different. The vote is a simple majority vote. > >I hope that the man pages for tar(1), cpio(1) and pax(1) will get a hint that >the option -/ may in future be replaced by an option with different name >without notice. That is extremely unlikely to happen. If star(1) is integrated as tar/cpio/pax then it will need to implement the compatibility option "/" as it is implemented now. "star" being option incompatible with tar anyway is free to implement the "/" option whichever way it pleases. I've not seen a better alternative suggested. Casper
