PSARC 2008/212 Integrate Unison into Solaris

[James Carlson]

Roland Mainz writes:
> Sarcastic comment of the day: Yeah... I remember how it was done "right"
> ([1]) in the case of /usr/bin/ksh ... =:-)

You'll need to try harder to get a plonk.  :-/

> > and don't have to worry so much about any costs due to
> > forking from or contributing to the upstream ... because there
> > effectively isn't one.
> 
> Groan... see above... just because the "head" (=maintainer, developer)
> is gone doesn't mean the rest of the body (= distributions, users) is
> dead, too.

Not breaking the user experience *is* a good reason to avoid some
changes.  It might not be a good reason to avoid other changes.

The point I'm making is that there is no one right answer here, and
simply asserting "I'm FOSS, so I get a free ride!" is deeply wrong in
terms of overall system architecture.  That can't be the only answer.

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