John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
> The root of this problem is that you are making a downstream
> derivative of the OpenSolaris work, and so are doomed to forever
> maintaining your fork.
>
> (You are not alone in this area. Any distro producer - including
> Sun - that is a consumer of other people's software is in the same
> boat.)
>
> The solution is to get your new features integrated back into
> the upstream source (OpenSolaris) so that the docs and code
> are already in sync when you get them.
This is just a repeating problem....
Most of the userspace programs from Solaris are close to unmaintained these
days.
If I make bug-fixes and enhancements for Sun software, I try to inform people
about what I did and I give the permission to use it but I don't have the time
to run after an "upstream" integration. If Sun is not interested in these
enhancements, it is a Sun problem.
J?rg
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