On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:13:52PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > I wasn't so much worried about "breaking" anything as I was about > giving people the feeling of "bait and switch." Every time we decide > to include an open source feature in Solaris, but we trim down the > deliverables based on our own problems, we end up with (at least) bad > press.
<sigh> Well, I don't think it's all that much more work, if any, so if Brian's willing, we might as well. > In most cases, I'd imagine that it causes customers to swear at Sun > (and Solaris), and then download the source. In that case, you've not > really done anyone any favor, and you might actually have offended > those users. Bunch of whiners. > It's a minor point, and not at all a showstopper for me, but it still > does make me uneasy. My experience so far is that people expecting > features in Solaris based on external open source projects are rather > inflexible in their demands. It's gotta be 100% Linux, or it's > nothing. Bunch of whiners. Seriously, if you've got a Linux fetish, use Linux. If you're going to be offended by a simple and completely changeable choice someone made, then you have other problems. Nevertheless, it probably makes sense to just throw in the GUI. The only downside I can think of is that if you've chosen to minimize your system by removing X, or GNOME, then vim won't work anymore. I think that's a shame, but since I believe that including the GUI is inevitable, we'll just have to deal with that. And perhaps work on making the GUI dynamic in the same way that the language bindings ought to be. > > that they depend on the vim internals, which, like any other interface > > delivered by this project and not explicitly called out, are Volatile). > > Actually, un-ARC'd interfaces are not implicitly Volatile. Sorry; I meant to say that that was what I'd planned on making explicit in the case. But without having to list every single interface individually. > They might be, if the shoe fits, but they may later be classified as > Private or even some more stable level if that's what's "right." > > At best, I'd say a plausible default is "Project Private." <shrug> I don't think there's a huge difference for an opensource project like this anyway, so if you think that's more appropriate, I'm fine with that. > If nothing else, it answers the inevitable first question: "so, why > aren't you just replacing 'vi' right now?" Good point. Danek _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
