[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> >Collaboration happens in the community.
> >
> >If you are a member of the OpenSolaris community, you should try
> >to collaborate.
> >
> >This is a case to see whether there is collaboration or domination!
>
>
> No. You seem to operate under the misapprehension that collaboration
> implies that you get your way.
You operate under the missconception that OSS is a world of domination.
I know friendly and cooperative OSS and people who check the current namespace
when introducing new program names.
> Clearly there is a (perceived) conflict between "your" compare command
> and ImageMagick's compare command.
>
> There are several ways to resolve this conflict:
>
> rename or remove IM' compare
> breaks full compatibility with IM
> move IM someplace else
> this makes it more difficult to discover and use (and therefor
> makes Solaris more difficult to use) and this may still break
> compatility if your compare is installed
>
> keep IM compare with IM in /usr/bin
>
> Of these three alternatives, I would say that the 3rd one is the best
> for the majority of OpenSolaris/Solaris users as I have seen not even
> a shred of evidence to the contrary.
The last choice is the worst. It ignores the fact that a polluted /usr/bin/
cannot be "early" in PATH, that "compare" from Imagemagick does no generic
comparison that would justfy the name "compare" and that my compare
is 20 years older.
Remember the problem with Fdisk IS 0x82. This has the same background.
Sun no longer uses this ID because the Linux people did make the ID 0x82
known in the public before Sun did.
Jörg
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