* James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> [2007-01-24 10:14]: > Gary Winiger writes: > > > > > make(1) exists from Sun, GNU, BSD, Schily, ..... > > > > > > How to you like to handle conclifting name conflicts? > > > > I'm getting concerned not with the substance of adding GNU > > or any other commands and libraries, but with the proliferation > > that could come about for conflicting functionality. > > /usr/bin, /usr/gnu, /usr/ucb, /usr/win32, /usr/darwin, /usr/freebsd, > > /usr/openbsd, /usr/distro flavor, ..... How are these intended > > to be addressed? > > I've "derailed" this case. This means that the project team will need > to request a meeting with PSARC in order to discuss the details of the > proposal. > > (For those not familiar with ARC terminology: "derail" isn't in any > way a denial or a signal of something wrong with the case. It means > that we need to have at least a written ARC opinion for it, and may > need to have one or more live meetings to discuss the issues that've > been brought up. It's no longer a fast-track, and will not be > automatically approved based on a timer.)
It would be a courtesy to the project team if ARC members could update the issues file with their current concerns (or concerns they have not yet written) by the end of the week. There are other projects dependent on this case that have to examine their alternatives, if we cannot come to a resolution in the neighbourhood the original proposal. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
