UNIX admin writes: > The crucial question is this: is the PSARC / ARC / whatever you want to call > it -- let's call it "the process" so *rigid* and so *inflexible* that, even > when someone external reports a conflict, nothing can be done about it?
There's no conflict. Nobody (not even Joerg) has ever suggested that his implementation of "compare" would ever be integrated into OpenSolaris. No proposal has ever been made; not even a suggestion. If such a proposal were made, we would do the obvious things: look at how it fits with the rest of the system, and explore the alternatives. Does the world really need both /usr/bin/cmp and /usr/bin/joerg-compare? Why? If all it provides is better file comparisons then either (a) it might go better as a /usr/bin/cmp replacement or (b) nobody cares. The only "problem" we have is a utility of unknown usefulness that has never been proposed for integration into any OpenSolaris consolidation. That should not pose a roadblock to a project team that's doing something *useful* for OpenSolaris: I consider cleaning up the /usr/sfw/bin ghetto to be a useful task. I know you chided me earlier for being a bit provincial in saying that things outside OpenSolaris don't exist, but this is exactly the situation I was talking about. I see no reason to suppose that Joerg's claim to /usr/bin/compare is at all important to any OpenSolaris user. I'm certainly willing to be argued the other way on that (are there in fact any users?), but I simply don't see it; particularly so when nobody has seen fit to try to integrate it. All that I've seen so far is pointless complaining, wild accusations, and claims that everything's broken. I'd much rather see project proposals, but I'm very much doubting that'll happen. > I mean, does the process need to looked at and revised, or are we dealing > with an emotional factor here as well? I think it's purely the latter. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
