[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: unreferenced files exception_list was Re: [osol-code] Round two:((pre-)pre-review)ksh93-integrationwebrev2007-02-02

[Roland Mainz]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:08:49PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
> > Well, how do the options look like ?
> 
> As far as I can tell, there aren't any good options.  There's a tension
> between the way ON works and the way that projects not developed for ON
> work.

Uhm... that's not 100% correct... we've spend almost the whole time in
the last twelve months to adopt ksh93 for Solaris+OS/Net. Much of the
bugfixes, cleanup, design changes and quality work&&testing were done
exactly because we're targeting OS/Net and it's stricter rules for
putbacks.

> I don't see any way of resolving that tension, short of choosing
> another consolidation.  Given how much pain this particular choice of
> consolidation seems to be causing, it's not clear to me that the pain of
> choosing another consolidation might not be significantly less.

Picking another consilidation won't help because the majority of items
we'd like to touch in one or another way are in OS/Net. Picking another
consilidation would either require to move all these items to the same
consilidation, don't touch them (as result we could cancel almost all of
the follow-up projects, including the migration of /usr/bin/ksh to
ksh93) or invent new rules (or bend existing ones) to match the
situation of complex inter-consilidation dependicies (AFAIK we really
won't try to do that since the amount of paperwork will even be bigger
than our current pile).

> My own
> tendencies lean towards, "When in ON, follow ON rules as closely as
> possible."

Agreed. I am looking right into modifying my pullover scripts to handle
"missing files" in some way and work with Peter&co. to figure out which
files should be removed.

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Bye,
Roland

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