The other thing to consider with JDS is that we still have missing or outdated gnome desktop applications. Secondly, we don't provide the ease of transition to the latest available JDS (i.e. GNOME 2.10). Third, no support for all currently shipping Solaris releases (i.e. Solaris 8, 9).
With the pkgbuild, how will it be aligned with GARNOME so we can provide as much support to the GNOME on Solaris community as possible? An ISV may want to go to a build script, point it to a directory of GNOME 2.13.2 tarballs, and just press enter to build the entire GNOME sources from scratch. No batteries required. We can log the results and then report that info back to the GNOME developers for guidance and Sun. I see we are doing that with the JDS build instructions and *.spec files. Yet, you will always have the ISVs that want the 'bleeding-edge' versions of GNOME/JDS from the developer/unstable branch (i.e. GNOME 2.13.2 currently) and want something like a package build system like GARNOME or pkgbuild to do the work for them. Then, youcan just add your versions of DBUS/HAL/LIBCAIRO/Evince and just let the build system rip through the tarballs. The KISS principles are upon us. ~ Ken Mays @ EarthLink, Inc. This message posted from opensolaris.org
