[ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

[Joerg Schilling]

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:56:49PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > Or you could rename your compare to something else that conflicts
> > > neither with the existing cmp(1) nor the new compare(1) (yes, it came in
> > > before yours and now you're not happy; c'est la vie).   ecmp, fcmp, ...
> > > four letters long is better than seven -- less typing.
> > 
> > If someone starts to use a name that has been in use since 20 years before, this
> > entity needs to change the name to something that does not conflict.
>
> It happened.  Oh well.  Now you might want to finish the task of
> integrating star before someone appropriates that command name for
> something else...  :/

This does not depend on me as I am ready and waiting sice quite some time.

> And yes, a registry that all Linux/*BSDs/OpenSolaris distros/c-teams
> could use would be cool.

You find one at Sourceforge.net, one at freshmeat.net and one at 
developers.berlios.de/sourcewell.berlios.de and a smaller one at savannah.org

It may be that there will be a new common registry in one or two years.

Jörg

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