David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: > > > I'm leaning towards deleting the files first. > > Although we could do two commits on the first putback to save the > > unreferenced files under deleted_files/, I'm not sure > > if we want to keep doing this for subsequent putbacks, in cases where the > > set of deleted files may have changed. I think it would get messy, > > unless we're only thinking of doing this the first time. > > > > Would it make more sense to keep an archive of the full version of the AT&T > > source which was ported on the ksh93 project web page? > > I think both of these suggestions are good ones. It doesn't make sense > to putback files which will then be removed but archiving the full AT&T > source on the project web page makes perfect sense.
Except that the project website has no way to "protect" any files from being deleted. And there is no gurantee that the website even exists in ten or fifteen years. My concerns about missing files are not about what happens "now" or in "five years" - but maybe in "ten years" or "fifteen years" ... ... anyway... http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2007-May/002602.html says "... delete files now, burn original AT&T sources on CD and revisit/discuss the issue after the putback...". ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
