It seems that PSARC discussions are not taken for serious....
Let me quote something I did write Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:30:43:
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Well, even in the OSS world besides OpenSolaris there is a lot of thigs that
could be done better ;-)
Unfortunately, there are OSS authors that do not care about what already
exists when they make a decision. This even applies to longer named commands.
As an example, you might check for "compare". This is a program I maintain
since 1984 that is similar to "cmp(1)". Around 2004, the people from
ImageMagick decided to write a non-generic image compare program and gave them
the name "compare".
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Now it seems that my warning has been ignored and "/usr/bin/compare" on svn_77
appears to be a program from ImageMagick that illegally uses the name "compare".
Please rename the non-generic compare from ImageMagick to "icompare" or
something similar.
BTW: I just filed a bug and I am crossposting this to ogb-discuss as this is
a rule violation that needs to be known in public.
J?rg
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