Joerg Schilling wrote:
> There is documented extern interest in star integration. The problem was just > that Fred did not contact the star mailing list and that there may be other > people who have the interrest but are not on the star developers mailing list. Fair enough. If you want to proceed, then certainly it could move forward if you want to work on it. > > I cannot speak for Sun and in case that there is no interrest inside Sun, I > cannot understand why - given the fact that a less powerful tool like GNU tar > was already integrated. There is interest and there is interest. I am sure there are a lot of people here that would be interested in seeing star integrated. Fewer are going to be willing to take on a significant amount of extra work to drive that process forward. I don't know the particulars, but I have seen any number of requests by you to get star integrated, and any number of requests by Sun employees asking you to do the work necessary to get it done. Perhaps it is because there is already a less powerful (but adequate?) tool already integrated that the interest is less. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom
