>>>>> "Danek" == Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> writes:

Mike> There's a discrepancy in the CLI stability between the /usr/bin
Mike> items (Volatile) and the /usr/gnu/bin items (Uncommitted).  Why is
Mike> that?  I'd expect them to be the same.

sch> This came up earlier (and Danek raised it as well)--it allows a
sch> project team to consider replacing the default environment's variant.

[...]
Danek> That's interesting, and probably valid, but I don't think that's
Danek> the way most people read the interface tables.  What they're
Danek> going to see (I think; 'cause that's what I see) is that you've
Danek> got one command with two locations, and that the /usr/bin version
Danek> of the command is likely to change (and possibly incompatibly) in
Danek> a patch release -- presumably to always match the provider's
Danek> latest version, be that GNU or whoever -- and the /usr/gnu/bin
Danek> version of the command will change only compatibly in a patch
Danek> release.

Yeah, that's how I read it.  It'd be good to clarify this in the
proposal.

mike

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