[csw-maintainers] Bugreport on alternatives with NFS-shared /opt/csw

[Philip Brown]

Going back a waaaaayyys...


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Wed Mar 24 13:38:04 -0400 2010:
>
>> i'm not surprised. which is why I reiterate my suggestion that we
>> should merely duplicate the user-level interface (and only the bits
>> we actually care about), and thus avoid extra baggage.
>
> But why reinvent the wheel?  The wheel is already round and mostly
> works.


Because "fully works" is better than "mostly works"

> With some tweaks, that as you say, should be acceptable
> upstream since they wouldn't harm the original environment, it'd be
> perfectly round for us too.

Thanks to Dago's writeups on the wiki spaces, I now have a better
understanding of how "alternatives" works.
And I now also understand Dagobert's reticence on this issue... sadly,
I dont think that this would be fixable in the redhat implementation
without majorly reengineering the way it currently works.

> Anyway.  Since I'm not going to do the work in either scenario, I'll
> be quiet now.

Well, I am happy to say that this week, I found both my old spirit of
development, and time to indulge it, for a while!

I have now written a mostly complete, from scratch implementation of
"alternatives"
(in ksh of course:)

It currently stands at 230 lines. 52 of those are comments.
"Simpler is Better".

I anticipate "version 1.0" to be somewhere below 300 lines.

Readable, functional, and fully compatible with ALL our needs, rather
than only "mostly".

If I dont produce a test version for public consumption by tuesday,
someone please give me a nudge :)