Here're my favs off the top of my head: Between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and RHEL 5 /bin/tail changed, breaking the JRE. Output of /bin/ls changed between RHEL 3 and 4, using tab as separator. Between RHEL 4 and 5 tab was removed again. Names and spelling of long options changes. The GNU coreutils developers can't even find a consensus whether American English or British English is the prevalent form of English. A mass rename of options between RHEL 3, 4 and 5 was the result.
Irek On 1/15/09, Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@sun.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:31:03PM +0100, I. Szczesniak wrote: > > 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''. > > > Are you saying that the GNU coreutils change incompatibly every 6 months? > > I don't follow GNU coreutils developments, but I'm curious, if you have > links. > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
