Mostly deleted.  Most of Roland's concern is his scheduling.  Sorry, I 
don't care.
Desiring to work on something this weekend, is not one of the reasons for
using "self-review".

Other observations follow:

Roland Mainz wrote:
> Why do you want that I want to do _all_ utilities in one piece ? It's
> technically impossible to do so for a volunteer, even for me. I can
> handle the utilities (including testing, code review, RTI etc.)
> step-by-step but certainly not all in one step.
>   

As other posts have suggested, we need to decide what the appropriate group
of utilities to do as subprojects is appropriate.

My "Rome" is all versions of the same basic utilities: */bin/*awk, 
*/bin/*grep,... (well,
maybe an exception for oawk).

But that's just my expectation.  What we need it consensus about what
the neighborhoods are.

(Please respect John's best practice for e-mail - read the thread to 
(nearly)
complete before responding. Yea, I forget to do that myself all too often)

>> 2)   We have a 32-bit user land (only) because 32-bit utilities on SPARC
>>       weren't any faster than 64-bits (so why support both?).  Since we have
>>       unsupported any 32-bit SPARC hardware, the change could be made
>>       now.  However, validation needs to be done that this doesn't result in
>>       performance regression.  (Should be faster on an x86 - its all about
>>       the number of registers, not the data path.)  This is a C-team (PAC?)
>>       issue, but it should be considered.
>>     
>
> We had that discussion already.

I assume "we" refers to some OpenSolaris discussion.  Trust me, I'm not
interested in all of the forums.

In any case, I only included (2) for the information of the C-team.  There
is no architectural concern.  I thought that was rather clear.

- jek3





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