Re: djblinux/djbos/"D. J. Bix"

Laurent Bercot (Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:44:22AM +0200):
> > I am asking this because the issue is unclear.  Does GNU ed belong under
> > /package/text, or should Stefan have submitted a patch to Paul for
> > sp-foreign?  Paul has created something of a divergent de facto
> > standard.
> 
>  I believe that ed's place is /package/misc/spf/ed .
>  If Stefan wants to provide a gnu-ed-sk package, with a gnu-ed-sk
> command which is based on GNU ed, fine. But it's gnu-ed-sk, not ed,
> and Stefan, not the ed maintainers, is responsible for the gnu-ed-sk
> software. He's creating work for himself.

I think text/gnu-ed belongs to the FSF. While text/gnu-ed-sk belongs to
me. The command /command/ed is not registerable at
<http://cr.yp.to//slashcommand/list.html> since GNU 's ed is not the only
implementation. (Think of Sun, AT&T, etc.) IF /command/ed should be
globally unique then either
(1) D.J.B. has to change his policy or
(2) D.J.B. has to fix this part of his policy for eternity. While another
    registry has to be set up for alternatives of global commands. In
    general the different alternatives are more or less incompatible.
    Thus, the registry should define a (or the greatest) common
    interface for clients.

-- 
Stefan

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		-- Lao Tsu