Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM> wrote:
> > Before Don did get the approval to introduce -/ for ls(1) he promised _not_
> > to do the same for tar(1).
>
> Don was the fast-track sponsor for the case (2007/394) NOT the project
> team representative (Basabi was in that case)
>
> Same in this case, Don is just the person sponsoring the ARC case NOT
> the project team representative (Cynthia is for this one).
It doesn't matter how incompatibility is introduced. We need to prevent it from
happening.
> > Let us follow him and deny the approval for this case that would definitely
> > introduce CLI incompatibilities.
>
> Incompatibility with what existing already integrated or ARC approved
> OpenSolaris command ?
>
> Incompatible with star is use of -/ does not count it is not ARC
> approved or in OpenSolaris.
star _is_ ARC case approved (2004/480).
I hope it is even possible to roll back the ls(1) ARC case as slitting a big
change into several small cases did try to slip in the ARC system.
My proposal is the same as I did make in June:
- Introduce a long option for the intended purpose.
- If the getopt() in Solaris libc is unable to handle long-only options,
chose an otherwise inapropriate letter (like e.g. '$') for the short
options and document this cleanly.
J?rg
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