[ksh93-integration-discuss] ARC case tools... / was: Re: ksh93 Update 1 [PSARC/2008/094 FastTrack timeout 02/15/2008]

[John Plocher]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> Slightly offtopic: Are these tools opensource ? :-)

They could easily be, but they have several downsides:

   o they need to run internal to Sun's firewall,
   o they presume NFS access, a shared netgroup, and access to emacs and vi,
   o they are a 15 year old collection of ksh, perl, awk and (muy poquito) php,
     interfacing to cron, sendmail and mysql,
   o the plan is to replace it with a new implementation ASAP, so
     it is unclear whether it would be worth your and my time to bring you
     up to speed with the code,
   o I'm not sure how outside changes would be incorporated back.

Now that the branding stuff is starting to move off of my plate, I can resume
my focus on open ARC tools - expect me to pop up on the arc/OS.o relationship
project to start driving requirements soon.

   -John