Josh Hurst wrote:
On 2/23/07, Ghee Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Josh Hurst wrote:
> On 2/16/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Girts Zeltins wrote:
>> > Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE.
>> > I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug
>> database, will they be fixed? Is there any chance to see them fixed?
>>
>> If they are serious bugs, then they may be fixed. Low priority (P4
>> & P5)
>> bugs aren't being worked on much, and work is beginning on
determining
>> which parts of CDE will be removed as part of the ongoing EOF
process,
>> so things being removed (mostly the applications) aren't likely to be
>> fixed unless escalated by a customer with a support contract for
>> Solaris 8, 9, or 10. Public libraries, dtksh, and similar
interfaces
>> that other applications may depend on are planned to stick around.
>
> WIll Sun FIX dtksh? Both experts in this field - David Korn and Roland
> Mainz have complained about dtksh being utterly broken because Sun
> used an unofficial alpha code as ksh basis.
Was it a Sun decision or the consortium decision? I guess it has to
be latter.
HPUX uses ksh93n for their dtksh. Maybe the consortium did an update
which Sun did not integrate? Wouldn't be a surprise for me since Sun
didn't update for CDE2 either
bash-3.00$ /usr/dt/bin/dtksh
$ print ${.sh.version}
Version M-12/28/93d
Which is not too far away. Not sure what changed in between the release.
With regards to CDE2 as I recall by that stage, most consortium members
are passed
the active development stage. In fact, Sun was (and possibly HP) the
only member
left actively developing and fixing bugs when CDE 2 was released. There have
been so much development code internally that the code based has been
greatly
diverged by that stage. Taking on CDE 2 was just too risky and
undertaking then.
Having said that, some of us did gone through some of the CDE2 code to
pick up
bug fixes :)
Sun did take on Motif 2.1 while consotium member like IBM never move beyond
Motif 1.x.
I guess looking back, transparencies in the Open Source projects is GREAT.
There is a release of code, and there is putback of code, the code base
is not
forked and at least not diverged so much that it is not manageable.
-Ghee
Josh
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