Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> It isn't the developers we are punishing by not >> implementing this case, >> many of them don't care anyway, but we are hurting >> adoption of >> OpenSolaris and making it difficult to impossible to >> run some critical >> applications. > > Short-term, absolutely. Long-term, _educating_the_developers_ > to minimize and isolate platform-dependent code would help a lot more. > It would even be in their own best interests (Solaris has DTrace!) to have > their code not coupled to any one platform. > > It's not that changing the printf behavior is wrong, it's that it's > _incomplete_ > without going after the real problem, namely training the coders.
short of some sort of remotely-activated retribution to actually get *back* to the developers, while I laud the goal, it seems impractical.
