Jim Li wrote: > Torrey: >>>> Not to start a flame-fest here but haven't we seen a lot of other >>>> projects come across lately that integrate functionality that >>>> matches an other project? Why would this be different? >>> >>> I don't think it is a problem to have duplicate functionality, >>> personally. I would just like to hear that the project teams >>> delivering >>> related projects are talking together and formulating their plans with >>> each other in mind, cooperating with work on any common dependencies, >>> etc. At least aware of each other. >> >> All of engineering gets the ARC case submittal forms, right? ;) >> >> Seriously - I agree with you. One thing I'm sure we'll see is >> fighting mime types of file extensions in a lot of cases. > Mime types of file extensions issue exists in all kind of systems, so > IMHO this is not a ARC issue.
I'm not sure its *not* an ARC issue but I'm not raising it for this case. My point is that as we - And this is a generalization - add every single piece of FOSS software we can get our hands on to [Open]Solaris we're going to see more conflicts then we did in the past. The past being known for a lot less duplication and an unwillingness to have more then one tool do the same job. Media players are the easy example. How many have we integrated now? How is a user going to select the one they want and make it the default? Again, not a question for this case or this project team, but something we should figure out in the near term....if someone hasn't already.
