PSARC 2008/212 Integrate Unison into Solaris

[Frank Che]

Nicolas Williams wrote:

>>>4.5.2 Exported Interfaces
>>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>   |        NAME           | PROPOSED        |      DESCRIPTION       |
>>>   |                       | STABILITY LABEL |                        |
>>>   +-----------------------+-----------------+------------------------+
>>>   | SUNWunison            | Uncommitted     | Unison package         |
>>>   |-----------------------+-----------------+------------------------|
>>>   | /usr/bin/unison       | Committed       | Unison executable      |
>>>   |-----------------------+-----------------+------------------------|
>>>   | ~/.unison/default.prf | Uncommitted     | Unison default profile |
>>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>      
>>>
>>I probably shouldn't repeat this, but I am again concerned about 
>>Committed for an application that seems to have a somewhat limited 
>>audience and may itself no longer be actively developed or maintained.  
>>(See http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/status.html for that 
>>status information.)  This is all the more so given the above 
>>limitations, which it now seems are unlikely to be resolved given the 
>>development status.
>>    
>>
>
>I agree.  Make it Obsolete, make it Uncommitted or Volatile and add a
>note explaining what changes might be coming, if any.
>
>  
>
According to the message from the community web site, there is no active 
development on this product any more. While bug fixes, small 
improvements and contributed patches may come. So I suggested to use 
Committed level. If members think this is not proper, please let me know 
and it will be fixed.

-Frank