SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE COUNCIL
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11-11-2009 MEETING MINUTES
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Garrett D'Amore: Yes
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MEETING SUMMARY:
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AGENDA
11/11/2009
10:00-10:10 Open ARC Business (use open dial in above)
10:10-10:55 EOF of graph and spline (2009/585)
Submitter: Garrett D'Amore
Owner: Garrett D'Amore
Exposure: open
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Case Anchors: <br>
<A HREF="#case1">EOF of graph and spline (2009/585)</A> <br>
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Fast Tracks:
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Case (Timeout) Exposure Title
2009/421 (11/13/09) open Open Fabrics User Verbs (OFUV) -
primary kernel components
let it run
2009/576 (10/29/09) open pam_krb5 PKINIT support
let it run until 11/12
2009/586 (11/10/09) open EOF of support for expanded printing
formats
approved
Next Meeting:
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11/18/2009
10:00-10:10 Open ARC Business (use open dial in above)
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IAM
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Name: EOF of graph and spline
Submitter: Garrett D'Amore
Owner: Garrett D'Amore
Status: waiting need spec
Exposure: open
SUMMARY
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In the process of preparing to make an official conversion from Solaris LP
to the newer (and more familiar, and better maintained) CUPS printing system
possible, we discovered two utilities which generate output which *may* be
printed using either the "postplot" or "lpr -g" utilites. (Or, using
"-Tplot" as the argument to "lp".)
The utilities in question are "graph", and also "spline". "graph" generates
output in the format specified by plot(4UCB), and we would like to eliminate
all support for that format in Solaris. "spline" generates an output which
is primarily intended as input into "graph". ("spline"'s output may be
usable for other applications as well.)
We believe that these utilities are not widely used, and continuing to
support
them (particulary /usr/bin/graph) creates a challenge when enabling the
conversion to the newer CUPS printing system. We therefore would like to
propose EOF'ing them in the next minor release.
Note that the Open Source community has largely settled on "gnuplot" as
the graphing and plotting system of choice. A separate effort to integrate
gnuplot into Solaris is underway concurrently.
The specific utilities that we would like to remove are:
/usr/bin/graph
/usr/bin/spline
A separate case will deal with removal of the infrastructure in LP to
support
plot(4UCB) output, and will depend on this case.
ISSUES
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VOTE
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Approve - Glenn Skinner, Sebastien Roy, Rick Matthews, Gary Winiger,
Mark Carlson, Garrett D'Amore
Deny -
Abstain -
Not Participating (NP) -
THE NEXT STEP
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Approved
