On 8/16/09, Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Just my humble opinion. Why should community > > support two different sets of quite similar tools. > > Maybe some things (e.g. ZFS ACL support) should be > > integrated into GNU tools? > > > > Do you really believe that this will ever happen? > > > > The GNU tools do not even support Linux specific > > features, why do you believe > > that they will ever start supporting Solaris specific > > features? > > But in other case we have the following case: > 1) A lot of users (and what is more significant, developers) get used to > work with GNU tools. So, even to compile firefox we need GNU userland. > 2) But a lot of Solaris native utils, respectively, relies on > Solaris-specific behavior. > And as result both kind of tools should be supported.... Quite strange... > May be there are some ways to make GNU tools at least do what Solaris tools > can do (to improve end user experience)... At least, why there can be some > objections from GNU projects commiters if patches for GNU tools enhancing > their functionality on Solaris are suggested to them? > Of course, another way is to make own Solaris tools more GNU-like (for > example as it is done in FreeBSD). It will make life of developers (and > admins trying to compile soft on Solaris) easier. But it is not always > possible...
If you want GNU and FreeBSD features in the Solaris userland look at the ksh93-integration project. They are adding GNU and FreeBSD features to the commands in /usr/bin. Just download and install the binaries from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2009-07-02/ to see how the future of Solaris looks like :) Chris -- ^---^ (@)v(@) Chris Pickett | / IT consultant ===m==m=== [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
