Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Isn't spending time on ntegrating less powerful programs a waste of time? > Please note that integrating star was decided _inside_ Sun even before GNU tar > was added. Not necessarily. Ever hear the expression "good enough is the enemy of the great"? For whatever reason, GNU tar got there first. Thus a gap was filled that provided some of the impetus to integrate star. Apparently the lessened need put star below the threshold required for anybody within Sun to desire to do the work. Given that, the onus is on you to do the work or provide a good business case for Sun to make it someone's job. -- 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
