Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
> After a lengthy discussion, this case was approved during today's PSARC
> meeting. J?rg's issue (the star utility uses -/ to mean something
> different from the way cpio, pax, and tar will use -/) was discussed in
> detail, but PSARC did not find his arguments compelling.
So let us conclude:
- There have been no compelling arguments from the people who
filed the ARC case, proving that there is is no better way
to implement this feature.
- Sun no longer cares about long term interface stabiliy.
- Sun ignores the OpenSolaris community.
- Some people inside Sun foil a correct ARC review for a bigger
and complex change and bypass the process by plitting the big
change into zillion small changes that are easily to approve.
- The ARC commitee needs to be changed or OpenSolaris will die!
If there is not a single non-Sun person from the OpenSolaris
community that is allowed to at least veto decisions, the ARC
decicions do not have the basis that is needed for OpenSolaris.
I hope that the man pages for tar(1), cpio(1) and pax(1) will get a hint that
the option -/ may in future be replaced by an option with different name
without notice.
I do not accept this "decision", sorry guys - you need to learn that you need
to cooperate with the OpenSource community if you like to benefit from
OpenSource.
J?rg
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