I believe it is a mistake to concentrate on the GNU coreutils tools. Opensolaris would alienate users from OSX and BSD platforms with an API which roughly changes every six months. It'd be better if Opensolaris starts its own Solaris coreutils project than being at the GNU maintainers ''mercy''.
Irek On 1/14/09, solarg <sol...@laposte.net> wrote: > Ghee Teo wrote: > > > > solarg wrote: > >> hello all, > >> i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages > >> comparing to solaris chmod? > >> > > Check your $PATH, the default path should include /usr/gnu/bin before > > /usr/bin. > > You can change this to use whichever one you prefer. > > Let hope this does not start a flame war :) > > > thanks for all reply. I'm just wondering if it's not possible to mix the > best of solaris and gnu tools. > For example, i prefer to use gnu tar, gnu make and gnu patch, because it > makes easier the process of compiling foss. > I'm also wondering if it's not valuable to integrate a tool like module > (http://modules.sourceforge.net/) ? > > > gerard > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
