On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:48:29AM -0800, John Plocher wrote: > 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".
The two are related. It's much easier to refresh bits if doing it is just matter of doing a code drop. And that is much more likely to be feasible if the interfaces' stability is low and if we keep Solaris- specific changes to a minimu of contribute them upstream. > 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. The disconnect is not about /usr/bin/grep but about the time lage in refreshing /usr/gnu/bin/grep w.r.t. the FSF's releases of the same. Linux distros are in the same boat. > It is that disconnect that concerns me, especially since that same > type of disconnect does not exist with the "other" alternative > environments. Perhaps I'm not getting it.
