On 9/23/06, Joseph Kowalski <Joseph.Kowalski at eng.sun.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org>
> ...
> > Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Hence, we should just rename the libcmd associated with ksh on Solaris.
> > > A fork from the reference community (ie: David Korn)? Yes, but an
> > > exceptionally minor one.
> >
> > Definately NOT. NEVER.
> > There will not be a rename of libcmd nor a move of it's location (e.g.
> > moving it outside the default library location, e.g. either /lib or
> > /usr/lib). This would be an incompatible change to the upstream version
> > and I will not let that happen.
>
> OK, we seem to be at an impass for several issues. It doesn't seem that
> additional mail exchanges are going to resolve those issues.
>
> If this were a full case (which could happen if any of us decide to derail
> it), I believe we would be approving it, but with TCRs.
>
> For the uninitiated, the TCRs are changes that *must* be made to the
> Architecture before the project can be integrated.
>
> I believe the TCRs the committee would be applying are:
>
> 1) Do not deliver /sbin/jsksh93 or any other objects on root.
>
> 2) Rename the libcmd delivered by this project to something
> considerably less generic.
Are you completely nuts? Did you read Rolands comments about such an
incompatible change? This project would truly be dead if Sun wants to
force a rename or move of this library (I don't care about the
predictions of the trolls in this list but this is something which
will have fatal consequences for this project).
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_ Felix Schulte
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