[osol-code] Re: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93-integration pre-reviewround"two" (webrev 2007-05-14)]

[James Carlson]

Joerg Schilling writes:
> Unplanned is simular to planless and this is what I would call the Sun tar 
> extensions I have in mind. They are based on deprecated methods 6 years after 
> the deprecation was official and 8 years after the fact of the deprecation was 
> known. We live in the time POSIX.1-2001 and no longer in POSIX.1-1988 time.

At a guess, you're talking about the trusted extensions.

If so, then I think it's rather presumptuous to say that the team that
did this was "planless."  It seems to proceed from an assumption that
supporting the latest POSIX standards is the only worthy goal, and not
also supporting existing customers with existing data.

In any event, this claim is completely off-topic here.  You need to
approach the people who made those changes and talk to them directly.

> > The whole point there is reaching consensus, not fighting.
> 
> I was in hope that this will be already possible. Unfortunately a fight was 
> started that will not bring us towards an OpenSolaris that is created in 
> cooperation of poeple from Sun and the external community.

I don't know of anyone who was trying to fight with you, and I can't
imagine how calling someone else's work "planless" is a useful way to
seek cooperation.

If there's a fight started somewhere, I don't think it's here.

> We need cooperation and dicsussions between experts.

I agree with that part.

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