[osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:31:03PM +0100, I. Szczesniak wrote:
> I believe it is a mistake to concentrate on the GNU coreutils tools.
> Opensolaris would alienate users from OSX and BSD platforms with an
> API which roughly changes every six months. It'd be better if
> Opensolaris starts its own Solaris coreutils project than being at the
> GNU maintainers ''mercy''.

Are you saying that the GNU coreutils change incompatibly every 6 months?

I don't follow GNU coreutils developments, but I'm curious, if you have
links.