[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris (TM)

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

Le 23 oct. 07 à 01:17, Joerg Schilling a écrit :

> "ameya agnihotri" <ameyaagnihotri22 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> This is a really bad idea, IMHO.  It would be like talk about
>>>> UNIX-tm  as a single OS.
>>>>
>>>> OpenSolaris is a sort of "way of life" or "way of Operating  
>>>> Systems".
>>
>> I think its the kernel and some key utilities around it which define
>> OpenSolaris.
>> What difference will it make if i use GNU gtar or say Mytar  
>> (hypothitical)
>> if the end result is the same?
>
> The results are not the same as gtar by default does not create  
> standard
> compliant archives. This results in a high porobalility for the  
> inbability to
> extract these archives on other platforms.

This should be on the policy : default options should create  
compliant things.

But compliant to what ? POSIX, UNIX, RFC, OpenSolaris ?