[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Ken Gunderson]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 01:21 +0000, Ben Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yeah, I read the thread, and that aspect I do agree with.  The part that
> >>> irked me was the this makes things more familiar for Ubuntu Linux users
> >>> (ir)rationale.
> >>
> >> I must have missed that part of the thread but sudo predates Linux by at
> >> least ten years; http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/history.html
> >>
> >
> > It's the same old Solaris admin versus Linux admin thingy. Any
> > shortcomings/non-existing feature in Solaris are ignored/brushed off and
> > anything remotely 'Linux' related gets put on the grill immediately.
> >
> > I can understand wanting to keep the same interfaces but making rabid
> > attacks on stuff that are additional just because they are the current Linux
> > practice is really irrational. Hence stuff like sudo is a Linux thing...
> 
> path of least resistance.  the do it for me attitude, instead of do it
> for myself.
> Are studio compilers free?  Yep.  Do many people use them?  Nope, because
> they are different from gcc, and things gcc/g++ let you get away break with
> the studio compilers because those were written to standards, not the whim
> of a developer.   And fixing said source might mean I have to spend a little
> more time making it "Solaris" ready, and then I might have to fight with the
> upstream maintainers, oh my.
> 
> I'm not shocked.  In the least.

Interesting that you should bring this up because OI is going precisely
this direction.  See today's "Transitioning from Sun Studio to gcc &
clang/llvm" thread on oi-dev list.

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Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>