On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 01:21 +0000, Ben Taylor wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Christopher Chan > <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > >> > >>> Yeah, I read the thread, and that aspect I do agree with. The part that > >>> irked me was the this makes things more familiar for Ubuntu Linux users > >>> (ir)rationale. > >> > >> I must have missed that part of the thread but sudo predates Linux by at > >> least ten years; http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/history.html > >> > > > > It's the same old Solaris admin versus Linux admin thingy. Any > > shortcomings/non-existing feature in Solaris are ignored/brushed off and > > anything remotely 'Linux' related gets put on the grill immediately. > > > > I can understand wanting to keep the same interfaces but making rabid > > attacks on stuff that are additional just because they are the current Linux > > practice is really irrational. Hence stuff like sudo is a Linux thing... > > path of least resistance. the do it for me attitude, instead of do it > for myself. > Are studio compilers free? Yep. Do many people use them? Nope, because > they are different from gcc, and things gcc/g++ let you get away break with > the studio compilers because those were written to standards, not the whim > of a developer. And fixing said source might mean I have to spend a little > more time making it "Solaris" ready, and then I might have to fight with the > upstream maintainers, oh my. > > I'm not shocked. In the least.
Interesting that you should bring this up because OI is going precisely this direction. See today's "Transitioning from Sun Studio to gcc & clang/llvm" thread on oi-dev list. <http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2011-May/000406.html> -- Ken Gunderson <kgund...@teamcool.net> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss