On 27/06/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the special case of Sun's tar implementation, the biggest problem is that the documentation is incomplete and that there are many completely undocumented features. As I mentioned already, it would help if we agree on that the current /usr/bin/tar may be replaced by star without the need to implement features that are either not documented (in public) at all or that have no documentation for the related archive format on June 25th 2007.
I don't see that happening Joerg. As several engineers have already tried to tell you, Sun is in a position where they are required to continue to support certain functionality. So what about working on getting the documentation you need so that the missing functionality can be implemented so that star can be used as a drop-in replacement?
For the future we need to find a way to prevent a repeat of the problem.
I think it's pretty obvious that Sun engineers are trying their best to ensure that these discussions are in the open as much as possible in the future. I really don't foresee the same thing happening again, and I really think you need to move on from talking about what has happened and star talking about what to do now. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
