On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:16:56PM -0700, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: > >(PSARC: do we need to add a best practice/policy that says that > >new functionality added to /usr/bin tools needs to also be added > >to /usr/gnu/bin equivalents if they exist to avoid causing > >problems for users with /usr/gnu/bin first in their $PATH, > >like the OpenSolaris 2008.05 default user setup?) > > Longer term, it's not clear what the disposition will be of these tools > in the OpenSolaris 2008.05 binary product. It's possible that instead > of leveraging /usr/gnu/bin being at the front of the PATH, the GNU > features will be made to the "classic" utilities. Or perhaps, the > changes will occur the other way around. I think it's ultimately the > Indiana project team that will need to propose policy in this area > although I suspect the resolution may differ on a utility-by-utility > basis.
I think too that it will help to promote SID-aware getXbyY functions that could be standardized. We plan to work on those, eventually, but perhaps our priority for those should be higher? Nico --
