Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:38:29AM -0800, John Plocher wrote:
>> A) A problem with comparing XPG4 with the gnu stuff is that the
> This seems irrelevant, particularly in light of serendipitous discovery.
My point was not "interface stability" - it was "freshness of bits".
When it comes to managing changes for /usr/bin/grep and /usr/xpg4/grep,
there is a very tight relationship between the two, and OpenSolaris is
the driver/owner.
When it comes to managing changes for /usr/bin/grep and /usr/gnu/grep,
there is NO relationship between the two, and OpenSolaris is NOT
the driver/owner.
When /usr/gnu/grep is updated by its true FSF owner, asynchronously
from when the OpenSolaris/SFW/Solaris-Distro chooses to update their
bits, we have a disconnect.
It is that disconnect that concerns me, especially since that same
type of disconnect does not exist with the "other" alternative
environments.
-John
