[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com> wrote:

> Why do you need more than one? We should have one solid working version that 
> does what we want. I use gtar because I like compression. It's a habit, and I 
> just use /usr/sfw/bin/gtar. I would rather just use tar and not have to worry 
> about which one I use.

And you create incompatible archives this way......
You should care about this fact.

If compression is the only feature you "need", better use star.

And BTW: star has aprox. twice as much features as GNU tar. 

The important issue with decisions like this is whether a small benefit
like (four you) the compression is it worth to use a nonstandard tool that
in the long term causes more trouble than it helps. As I already noted in 
another mail, I am currently not sure about your goals for this discussion.
If you like to start a discussion on "selecting the best application from
a list of similar ones for placing it into /usr/bin", we also need to talk
about general compatibility. This is where e.g. /usr/sfw/bin/gtar is creating
problems.

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js at cs.tu-berlin.de		(uni)  
       schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de	(work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org