On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:21:40PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > But your characterization of the fact that half the stuff I do simply
Please, let's not exaggerate. > doesn't work in the default indiana environment is "rather minor" is > worrying - are you really dismissing the installed base who've paid for > Solaris for the last decade and more so lightly? No: that would be a mistake. They have a solution though: change their PATH. Or just use Solaris 10. > If the gnu tools actually provided a functional superset then we wouldn't > have such a problem; the reality is that they're just significantly different. I don't agree. > I would imagine that this is why they're the default - because they are > so different, and we're trying to attract people used to that behaviour. > I would much rather enhance the Solaris userland to make it more familiar, > providing the best of both worlds This provides the worst of both worlds, as the GNU tools get no improvements from the Solaris community and vice versa. > rather than splitting the userbase in two I don't believe this will be the case. regards, john
