[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Milan Jurik wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>>>> I'm a longtime Linux guy, and when I'm in a terminal window on OS X, I
>>>> basically can't tell the difference from Linux.  If I want to do
>>>> system-oriented stuff, there are some issues, but you'd expect that.
>>>> But all my usual commands for moving around, looking at things, seeing
>>>> what's running, etc etc etc, are 100% the same...
>>>
>>> I totally agree. And that's speaking, not as a longtime Linux guy, but
>>> a longtime 80% SunOS/Solaris, 20% Linux guy.
>>>
>>> I like the OS X comparison. Almost daily on Solaris Express I do
>>> something like grep -A etc instead of ggrep -A etc; or tar -j etc
>>> instead of gtar -j etc[1]. (I admit to even feeling a mini-thrill the
>>> day I realized, totally by accident, that ls -S worked out-of-the-box
>>> on Solaris Express :) )
>>>
>>
>> Did you fill RFE?
>
> No, I admit having total, blind-faith confidence that the SFW
> consolidation team that is working on stuff stemming from case 2007/047
> already has them on their near-term roadmap. (Which of course is to
> say, they are already on the Solaris Express/Indiana nearterm roadmap.)

By way of example (assuming there are people subscribed here who don't
know what the SFW consolidation is/does), here are the ones I'm aware of
that have already been initiated or completed:

  coreutils case
  diffutils case
  readline case
  libtool case
  GNU which case
  Tcl/Tk case
  Automake case
  BISON case
  GM4 case

--Eric

P.S. It hit me that my post might come off as sarcasm (e.g. in saying,
"I admit to having total, blind-faith..."). IMO, using sarcasm in
forums such as this is almost always a bad idea. So no sarcasm was
intended -- I was being serious.