James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling writes:
> > NO, I am not talking about a _future_ project but about a project that has
> > already been accepted in the past.
>
> Do you mean "star" (PSARC 2004/480)? If so, that case placed no
> constraints or other special burdens on those proposing to modify
> tar(1), as far as I can tell. The only thing it said that's remotely
> related is this:
...
> That's hardly a demand to stop adding new features to tar(1), and the
> part where there's some sort of burden on tar(1) seems to me to be the
> point where that "if the latter is done" sentence becomes declarative
> rather than subjunctive.
Well, it is a matter of cooperative will not to add things without asking
before. in such a case. This is the reason why I belive this needs to be
discucced.
J?rg
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