[Dropped case number from subject as this is not an arc comment.] On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:54:01PM +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >Will these changes be made to both the chmod & chown utilities > >in /usr/bin & /usr/gnu/bin ? > > > >(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?) > > That seems to me like a bad idea, as they won't be gnu any more. > If it's felt desirable to have the changes in the gnu toolchain, > then the team should be persuaded to get them accepted upstream, > and then update the gnu tools in /usr/gnu/bin when that's been > done.
s/get them accepted/contribute them/ There's no guarantee that an upstream community will accept contributed changes, nor should a project here be completely limited by what its upstream community will accept. We should do a best effort to avoid forks, and to make any forks limited in duration. But we shouldn't have a blanket rule against forks. Nico --
