Josh Hurst wrote: > On 8/24/06, Dan Price <dp at eng.sun.com> wrote: > > On Thu 24 Aug 2006 at 12:35AM, Roland Mainz wrote: > > Like you, I write code for a living. So I didn't make this suggestion > > until after I had evaluated at least in part the feasibility of this > > change; Alan may be able to provide some more data (as he knows about > > CDE, JDS, etc), but I don't see why this change is so onerous: no ARC > > case (or a minimal one) would be needed, and notification to other > > consolidations of the date of the change and some commitment to make the > > appropriate makefile changes from them would be it. A putback to OS/Net > > altering several dozen makefiles would be needed. Cleverly doing this > > (with some symlinks) would even yield the ability to deliver this to > > ON, then get other consolidations updated. > > Why don't you provide the patches to integrate ksh93 into the SFW > consolidation? It looks you're devoted to the idea that your concept > is superior to Roland's solution. > Where is your code?
Umpf... this really doesn't help (or better: Please don't start flamewars here (however that comment gets ignored regardless how often I request that... ;-( )). This is not a "competition game" nor is Dan trying to "destroy" anything, he is just asking questions and gives hints for alternative solutions (my only complaint is that we should have done such a discussion at the begining and not this close prior the first putback, right now it completely kills my spare free time which should be invested in other details of the project... ;-( ). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
