David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: >> Personally, I'd like to see these things put through the Sun/Solaris >> engineering thought process. Too often in the OSS world things get >> done without much consideration to how they fit into the larger >> scheme of things. I'd hate to think we just pulling this stuff in >> without giving it the same consideration we give to things that >> originate in Solaris. > > I think it's a good idea to always apply good engineering judgement > here and definitely seeing how a particular component integrates with > OpenSolaris is important. However, if we needlessly change expected > interfaces with an eye towards "improving" them, we risk being > incompatible with the way the rest of the world interacts with that > component. The end result is likely many potential users not being > able to make the adjustment/transition to using that component on an > OpenSolaris-based platform. We also take the risk of being better, than just "me too".
I understand that there is a balancing act here. Later.... - jek3
