Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> wrote:
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well said.... let me add some general remarks:
> Also, if we do want Solaris-specific changes, I think we'll be more
> likely to reach a mutually acceptable approach if our rationale is more
> concrete than "such-and-such approach is ugly". Several messages in the
There is another important thing that should be thought of:
Integrating software from free protable sources should not result in trying to
patronise the Author of that software in a way that happened for me with star.
Long time after Sun did decide to have a lon term replacement of Sun tar by star
(PSARC 2004/480), Sun did make non-agreed extensionsto Sun tar that violate
current POSIX rules.
The Suntar/star replacement could happen much sooner if we name those
extensions
"iofficial" and transient.
A conclusion from trying to benefit from OSS is the need to have a nicely
cooperation at eye-level....
Besides the fact that it is helpful to have a hard technical based discussion,
it needs to be done in a way that includes the OSS authors.
J?rg
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