James Carlson wrote:
Doug Scott writes:
Steve Stallion wrote:
Personally, I am not terribly worried about GNU/Linux users who have a
hard time moving over to Solaris.
So you prefer that Solaris always will have a much smaller community the
Linux?
If the choice really is between "change the default units for df
output" and "have a small community," then it's clear. I'd opt for
the latter.
We have no way of finding all the scripts that depend on details like
that, nor do any of our customers. The only thing we could do would
be to smoke 'em out of their caves: deliberately break the interface
(violating our stability promises -- and losing whatever trust we may
have had) and see what happens when the smoke clears. Perhaps not a
good way to do engineering.
It appears that this issue applies to the interactive use case and
not scripting.
This can be tackled using some shell aliasing as Casper pointed out
earlier.
Though aliasing will not work for /bin/sh. But I doubt that the user
who wants
df -h as default will like /bin/sh to be his interactive shell!
IMHO many of the little tidbits can be sorted out without breaking
compatibility.
Regards,
Moinak.
I think that's actually a false dichotomy, and that we need to be a
lot smarter about what we change, and why, and what interfaces we
present to users, but if our future really does hinge on something
that trivial, then we're already long past dead.
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