Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Rich Teer wrote:
>> Thanks for the headsup. For clarity, is dtterm one of the programs
>> destined to be removed? If so, what are the chances of keeping it
>
> It seems that everything from the /usr/dt tree needs to go away for
> OpenSolaris since Sun is not free to give away this source code.
Actually, there are some things in /usr/dt that Sun wrote and which are
unencumbered by third party licenses (look especially at the tools whose
names started with sdt instead of dt, since those were Sun extensions).
Whether or not any of those are useful to retain is an open question -
for instance the power management projects in progress are likely to
produce a new GUI that controls the new functionality they provide
instead of continuing to use the old dtpower GUI that Sun created.
And I'm sure few will mourn the loss of sdtaudiocontrol, a program
that takes longer to start the JVM than most users spend running it
once it's open.
On the other hand, we'll probably keep sdtwebclient, as a way to
start your preferred browser without worrying whether it's called
Netscape, Mozilla or Firefox in the current OS version (especially
since people probably stuck that in their config files to start
their browser when they share an NFS home dir across machines running
different OS revs with different browsers included).
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
