On Jul 25, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that implementation could then be used by Solaris and included with OpenSolaris for other distributions to use as well.
No, we cannot work that way. OpenSolaris has to lead Solaris in all respects, including the development of revisions to existing executables. The code has to go into OpenSolaris first, developed to the point where it is compatible, and then used by Solaris in some future release. The folks building the Solaris distribution are fully capable of writing a shell script that selectively chooses what to include in Solaris based on Sun's business requirements. Solaris cannot be placed in a position where it determines the contents of OpenSolaris. That is a dead-end exercise of tossing code over the wall whenever Sun sees fit, which is the antithesis of what we are trying to do with the OpenSolaris communities. ....Roy _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
