????? ???????????? wrote:
> Who is responsible for closing this bug? I submitted this RFE to work
> on this. The scripts are replaced by executables where observability
> is guaranteed by debugger, truss and dtrace.

Unlike many such anonymized messages out of bugster, this one actually
has the engineer's name:

> [ jbeck, 2009-Dec-02 ]
> I am closing this as Will-Not-Fix, as the benefit in very minor disk
> space savings is not worth the cost in reduced maintainability.  Note
> that I am not acting as a "lone wolf"; a large number of ON engineers
> discussed this at lunch yesterday, at which there was strong consensus
> that this would be a Bad Idea [tm] for the reasons I mentioned above.

"jbeck" is john.beck at sun.com.

I wasn't in on that discussion out in Menlo Park, and it probably should
have been discussed on one of these lists, but I think I agree with the
reasoning that there's no real point in doing this.

-- 
James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>

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