Scott Rotondo wrote: > John Plocher wrote: > > Peter Tribble wrote: > >>> I know that I'm certainly not happy about ripping out Solaris commands and > >>> replacing them with external commands. > > > > Since Sun's management seems to have RIF'd the entire team that used > > to maintain those old Solaris commands, it seems clear that *they* no > > longer have the same commitment to them as they used to. In that > > case, anything that moves towards a codebase that /is/ actively > > supported by people who are experts in the field is rather to be > > desired, don't you think? > > Point taken, but to be fair Sun does still support these commands, and > there are Sun engineers responsible for maintaining them. Just not as > many as before.
... which leads to a question from my side: Who is now responsible for these commands (technically I need a name of someone who can answer some questions (both technical and organisatorical)) ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
