On Tue, 15 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: > My larger point: There's a big difference between ABI > breakage (something Linux does regularly, and you're absolutely right to > criticize it for doing that--but that's OPPORTUNITY) and tweaking > the default output of a utility that may be used in a handful of scripts.
Tell that to the big customer who suddenly experiences very expensive downtime because their scripts rely on the output format of those utilities... Man pages have an "Interface Stability" section for a reason. If a utility's output isn't labelled as "Evolving" (or similar) then it should be changed only after very serious consideration--and such a change has been proposed to the community. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
