>If a GNU utility is a proper superset of the Solaris version, would patches >to replace the Solaris version with the GNU version be accepted? Or, is >there some kind of rule that says that all Solaris functionality must be >present without depending on any GNU-licensed software?
But that's an hypothetical question (it's not the case) >Would patches to the Solaris tar to add "tar zj", automatic support for >*un*tarring GNU tar archives, and manual support for creating GNU tar >archives be accepted? Would a patch to add "grep -r" to solaris grep be >accepted? Would patches to add GNU long option names to the Solaris userland >utilities be accepted? Yes, we'd like that. "grep -r", yes, "z to tar" yes; long options; I don't know. For some time I had "gtar" as my tar but it was broken too often (it doesn't properly unpack certain archives I encountered) >If so, then I think it would be best to find the top 5-10 most requested GNU >userland features (e.g. "tar z") and implement them in the Solaris userland >ASAP. This would give almost guaranteed 100% backwards compatibility with >previous Solaris versions and "good enough" compatibility with Linux. That would be nice. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
