On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 13:07 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <Garrett.Damore at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
> > Mostly I've avoided this conversation, but I want to inject two cents
> > here.
> >
> > First, I'm sorry that Joerg feels that his effort is intentionally being
> > stepped on. I really don't think that is what is being done here.
> > There are several different implementations, and they have evolved in
> > incompatible ways....
>
> It seems that you did not yet understand the background.
> Give me a phone call and I will explain you the problem.
Am I incorrect in my understanding that you're upset because the
introduction of -/ conflicts with what you had previously used -/ for in
your implementation of suntar.c (in star)?
I've seen enough mail from you that I think you're misunderstanding what
Interface Stability means. Sun, Solaris, and OpenSolaris have *no*
commitment to interface stability of unbundled programs. Star is
currently unbundled/3rd party.
The interface stability rules *only* apply to backwards compatibility of
programs that Sun has already shipped. E.g., new versions
of /usr/bin/tar need to be backwards compatible with old versions
of /usr/bin/tar (as shipped on Solaris).
In any case, the committee decision was reached, and notably there were
no real objections, although during the meeting your concerns were
noted. (But, weighing the considerations of the various needs, it was
decided that your concerns did not warrant derailing the case.)
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in saying that I don't really want to burn
any more cycles on this.
-- Garrett
>
> J?rg
>
