>What I mean was > --Works in x86 32bit but not in 64bit, and not in Sparc > --Works with Bash but not ksh > --Works with single core but not dual or even 8 cores > --Works with cli but crashes X Window >etc.
None of these are considered acceptable at Sun. >Can a "project" be long-lived enough to allow for long-term >development by a largish team (like doing an 12 month project for a >team of 15 without getting hopelessly away from the main branch? Yes, I don't see why not. Development does not happen in the main branch; the main branch takes finished projects. >Could you see dog-slow code (but working correctly) code in the main >branch? For example, a utility written in Python rather than C/C++? Correctness is very important; the only rule performance is "no performance regression". >Could you humor me and tell me, in your opinion, what a team composed > entirely of non-Sun people would have to do to reverse-engineer the >binary-only code? Pull a samba? Well, Samba is easy because it's over the net; the libc interfaces are relatively straightforward also. The device drivers not so much. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
