[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite; the particular case of ksh is a difficult one; while I don't
think there are many people writing products based on ksh script
(I'd certainly hope there aren't any), scripts are often written
by system administrators and breakage is bad.
Similar to what Sun did
John Plocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Change of perspective
Are we all confusing the Consolidation called ON that lives
under the OpenSolaris banner with the whole set of potential
consolidations? Just because the ON consolidation is saddled with
compatibility issues with the closed stuff
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IHMO, in order for OpenSolaris to be accepted by mortals like myself,
blastwave.org has to become an integral part thereof.
In order to make blastwave an integral part of OpenSolaris, blastwave would
need to move towards an open build process.
Guess
Daniel Johnsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anything new happened in this direction ?
I mean can we really expect to see fine-grained acls with the arrival of ZFS ?
Like on Windows2k3 where you can set alot of permissions (read, read_acl,
write, append, ...) instead of just r/w/x, and the
Bill Sommerfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in the specific case of ksh88, it may turn out to be the case that pdksh
is close enough that the known delta is just a few bug fixes away -- a
small-scale project rather than a major undertaking like rewriting it
from scratch...
Why do you believe
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The rules we've set up in Solaris allow us to do a large amount,
even incompatible change, without going to a new major release.
It would probably have to be something as fundamental as libc changing
incompatibility and not offering an old version to
Hi all,
At the moment I'm looking for a Sun-way of building Solaris packages (Like
SUNW), with a proper build environment, but unfortunately there are too many
ways. I already have my own customized environment, but I prefer to use a
standard. The packaging guides at
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:
The most important thing people need to understand is that
adding something that is closed source and cannot be redistributed
or ported to other (new) platforms is a deviation from OpenSolaris.
[ ... ]
This ties back to my message yesterday on this
JL == James Lick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JL Move current ksh to ksh88, add ksh93, and make ksh a link to ksh88.
JL Include a script to change the link to/from ksh88 or ksh93 so people
JL can configure the default to taste easily. In a future release the
JL link would point to
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Magnus Forsberg wrote:
[ ... ]
The best solution to all of this for now is:
http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/...
That might be putting it a little too strongly, but I do agree that the
JDS/pkgbuild build system definitely seems to have _a lot_ of unifying
potential.
Eric
Sunfreeware is just plain BUSTED because Steve
Christensen doesn't really understand how to package
software, to be more precise, he does not understand
how to engineer software packages.
Sun clearly states in their Application Packaging
Developer's Guide how packages should be designed and
On 8/2/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to make blastwave an integral part of OpenSolaris, blastwave would need to move towards an open build process.
Guess why SchilliX cannot just use the results of the blastwave project. Jörg
In my
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:
If you like to have a discussion where people read your mail,
you should start with lines that are no longer than 78 characters
following RFC-2822.
You and many other people in this list use infinitely long lines
that are close to impossible to read.
On 8/2/05, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my previous post, I asked a couple of what should be considered easy
questions regarding blastwave.org but instead of getting direct yes or no
answers, I was told to go through the entire web site.
This kind of attitude happened a lot
James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
he was stating it was rude to tell someone to go read the doc's instead of
giving him a link to a page that
anwsered his questions directly.
???
Did you read my mail?
If you did, you would know that this is wrong.
If you like to have a
most other people use a email client that breaks lines automaticly making the
best use of a gui interface.
I think I have subscribed to the email list, but instead of getting the
posted messages, I have been receiving a bunch of emails that read like this:
---
You are watching the forum
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Anyway, as I mentioned to you in a separate email, the way this forum is
set up really does not speak well for whatever community it intends to
represent.
Agreed. Derek and the rest of the group, can we scrap the forums (or maybe
make them R/O) and
People who use a Browser to write mail need to set up the editing window
to be wide enough (e.g. 130 chars) and then manually insert line breacks.
Jörg
The problem with manually inserting line breaks is that, after you go back to
edit your message,
the entire paragraph will usually get totally
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:07:29PM -0400, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
Anyway, as I mentioned to you in a separate email, the way this forum is
set up really does not speak well for whatever community it intends to
represent.
Agreed. Derek and the rest of the group, can we scrap the forums (or
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:07:29PM -0400, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
Or, as I said before, let us set a news server for opensolaris.org groups.
What are the objections to gmane?
Gmane is fine, but I think it is set as R/O i.e. you can't post
This is a test to see whether the OpenSolaris Forum will show Chinese
characters:
漢字
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One of the areas we've been working on after Solaris 10 has been
labelled approachability--a rather vague term for eliminating
both annoying and substantial gaps in the operating system. Areas
we've been investigating include simplifying complex operations, like
rich networking
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:07:37AM -0700, Ferdinand O. Tempel wrote:
[ ... ]
As time progresses OpenSolaris will run ahead of the
music, and introduce incomaptibilites with Solaris. That's
This is not the plan and is not our announced
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, James C. McPherson wrote:
Daniel Johnsen wrote:
...
1b. Btw, why doesnt sun share the development process of zfs with the
community ? Like integrating it into the opensolaris release, but not
as the default root filesystem. It would be very clever to get a lot
of
What are the objections to gmane?
Dragan Gmane is fine, but I think it is set as R/O i.e. you can't post
Dragan through it.
We started talking about this in July, and it fell off my radar.
Anyway, the concern about gmane is the fact that users currently have to
be registered with mailman to
Hey,
I'd like to get this discussion out and onto opensolaris.org, so that
inputs, fixes, and new ideas come from the larger set of people who
care about OpenSolaris adoption. If you are interested, please let
me know, or just join in. Thus:
Sounds fantastic to me. Is this the
On 8/2/05, Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the areas we've been working on after Solaris 10 has been labelled approachability--a rather vague term for eliminating both annoying and substantial gaps in the operating system.Areas
we've been investigating include simplifying complex
Ouch, I am looking at this thread from the web, the format totally screws up:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1509
The original post from Stephen doesn't even show up.
FWIW, I usually read/write emails from gmail.
Tao
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* Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-02 17:59]:
Hey,
I'd like to get this discussion out and onto opensolaris.org, so that
inputs, fixes, and new ideas come from the larger set of people who
care about OpenSolaris adoption. If you are interested, please let
me know, or
Does anyone know if an iSCSI target implementation is on the opensolaris
roadmap? The initiator implementation looks promising, but the target
implementation would be super useful.
Thanks for any insight,
- Ryan
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James Lick wrote:
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
This is a test to see whether the OpenSolaris Forum will show Chinese
characters:
漢字
The forum software replaced what you wrote with ??, but in the mailing
list it comes out correctly as the traditional characters han zi.
The forum pages are
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