"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> >> * Any PSARC efforts (if any interfaces, including CLI options,
> >> protocols, or file formats, have changed, then an update fasttrack is
> >> probably required)
> >>
> >
> > Nothing has "changed", the interfaces have been enhanced in a compatible
> > way.
> >
>
> Even compatible interface changes are still changes, and need ARC review.
Why?
> >> * Get code reviews done (I think you need to have input from someone
> >> in Don Cragun's group here)
> >>
> >
> > What kind of code review do you expect?
> >
> > I am not sure whether these people will be able to do a code review for
> > 67000 lines of code (1.6 MB) anytime soon.
> >
>
> You can break it up across multiple people. Code doesn't get putback to
> Solaris without at least two sets of eyes looking at it. Whether it has
> 1 line of change, or 1M lines of change.
This did not happen for GNU tar, why should it happen for star?
> >> * Get testing done. There may be compliance tests for POSIX that
> >> need to be done. Again, Don can probably help you find someone who can
> >> identify what those tests are, and either enable you to run them or have
> >> someone run them for you.
> >>
> >
> > This sounds funny!
> >
> > Sun tar is tested against star to verify POSIX compliance. How do you like
> > to test star?
> >
>
> I don't know how to test it. But you had better find out what is
> required, and I think that means working with Don, before you file an RTI.
This did not happen for GNU tar, why do you believe it should happen with star?
> Actually, since I have learned that you are in SWAN already, you can
> file the RTI yourself. BUt I did omit one step, which is that you have
> to integrate star into a local workspace of your own, and make sure that
> it builds properly (including a full ON build). If you are integrating
> into SFW, rather than ON, the rules may be different.
I have no idea how this works.
> > What do you expect to be done here?
> >
>
> I thought I was pretty clear above. You seem unwilling to even try to
> figure it out.
I see that some people from Sun try to invent new trap doors every time we
advance a bit.
If you did GNU tar POSIX compliance, it would not be in Solaris.
J?rg
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