James Carlson wrote: > Roland Mainz writes: > > Sarcastic comment of the day: Yeah... I remember how it was done "right" > > ([1]) in the case of /usr/bin/ksh ... =:-) > > You'll need to try harder to get a plonk. :-/
Erm... for the log: It wasn't my intention to offend anyone... I just tried to wave half-madly with the sign which says "please sync with other maintainers (and if you fail try harder...) ...) ... > > > and don't have to worry so much about any costs due to > > > forking from or contributing to the upstream ... because there > > > effectively isn't one. > > > > Groan... see above... just because the "head" (=maintainer, developer) > > is gone doesn't mean the rest of the body (= distributions, users) is > > dead, too. > > Not breaking the user experience *is* a good reason to avoid some > changes. IMO sometimes this was done too often (for example: see /usr/bin/grep vs. /usr/xpg4/bin/grep ... but maybe there is a slim chanche to clean this up in the near future...) ... > It might not be a good reason to avoid other changes. > > The point I'm making is that there is no one right answer here, and > simply asserting "I'm FOSS, so I get a free ride!" is deeply wrong in > terms of overall system architecture. I fully agree with that ([1]) ... :-) [1]=My first list of questions would be: Ok... you're "FOSS"... but are you: 1. CSI-compilant (e.g. does it support multibyte characters (correctly)) 2. 64bit clean 3. conform to any related parts of the POSIX/SUS spec (Note that some of the stuff in /usr/gnu/ horribly fails tests [1] and [3] while some of the Solaris codebase fails [2] (which forces any OpenSolaris port to add artificial 32bit support even if the hardware is not intended to support 32bit (IMO a shame... ;-( ))) > That can't be the only answer. Right... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
