James, James Carlson píše v st 18. 01. 2012 v 16:43 -0500: > Milan Jurik wrote: > > The question is if the work done for Solaris 9 is so crucial even today. > > Additionally many things changed in cooperation of both sides, many > > things were merged. Will such fork have so crucial and deep in design > > advantages these days? > > "Done for Solaris 9?" Wow, I think that substantially disparages the > work that the Sun SSH team did in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. >
the fork and the original reasons are from Solaris 9 time frame, aren't they? Yes, a lot of happen during Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris but during that time a lot of work is about merge between OpenSSH and SunSSH as you can see from diffs. > I hope some of those folks are on the list and can respond > appropriately. I wasn't a member of that team, but I was there at Sun > when the discussions of why forking was necessary occurred, and the > issues were (and are) not trivial. > I also wasn't member of the team but I could follow it very closely in last years. Yes, the issues are not trivial, but we should compare costs and benefits. > But, hey, it's your system. Install anything you want on it. Much luck. > Personally I do not plan to add plain OpenSSH to the system now, I was arguing why I am thinking spending some time on extracting key parts of SunSSH and adding them on top of OpenSSH would be benefitial in long term. Best regards, Milan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
