Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> I think the concept of CCD is simply bad. We should not be providing
> a recompilation and packaging service. We should be providing assistance
> to the ultimate code maintainers to provide Solaris "packages" just like
> they
> provide RPMs (or whatever) for Linux.
Wearing my hat as a code maintainer for one of the major open source
upstream communities (X.Org), we provide the same set of packages for
all OS'es - those are source tarballs only. We don't provide RPM's,
debs, gentoo ebuilds, SVR4 packages, or any sort of binaries - there
are simply too many different versions of different distros, with
different package systems, dependencies, supported platforms, to even
begin. The only thing we (or many other upstreams) can support is
source release, and expecting each distro to provide it's own packages.
We don't have a warehouse to fill with the hundreds of machines necessary,
nor do we have the number of volunteers necessary, to provide packages
for any OS.
I just don't see trying to push package building upstream as a viable
solution at all.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
