All: I've said earlier on this thread that we can discuss things on a per command basis. Let us please arrive at a common understanding of what POSIX means to us.
While I have remained silent on this thread for the past two days, I have also received numerous mails asking that we kickban Joerg from Belenix-discuss, that we enforce moderation, people feeling disappointed and wanting to leave, etc. I have chosen to wait a few days and to then respond, since there is nothing to gain by losing cool and clamping down. Everyone needs to understand something important: the BOSUG and Belenix culture is to work in a civil manner with everyone. We are culturally very very different, and work on Belenix out of interest, love for it, and respect for how Belenix has been the foundation of the OpenSolaris distro. Joerg: On the one hand, you write authoritatively about POSIX, and at least Moinak and I like some of your tools. but on the other hand, there are accusations about you trying to push in your tools, about your lying about POSIX standards, etc. While I personally welcome your advice, there are others on this group (infact this very thread), who are skeptical about your statements. My request: Please let me set up the right discussion threads, and then provide inputs. I will arbitrate and ensure that the discussion is civil, but would also like us all to collectively weigh and understand what we need and which tools suit the groups' needs. Irek, and others who have opinions different from Joerg: Please be patient. We are not taking the final call on anything POSIX. I personally am now very very curious as to why there is so much of debate over the years, when the POSIX compliance tests are so easily available (accompanied with some different levels of understanding of how much these cost). It seems like we need a project manager to facilitate discussions - I'll set up something around this by mid next week. -- Ram _______________________________________________ belenix-discuss mailing list http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
