On 5/4/07, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote: > With respect to CCD and SFW, I've been thinking along the same lines. > In general, I completely agree with this although longer term I don't > see a need to introduce any more CCD packages. Instead what I would > propose is that all such externally-derived open source be integrated > into the SFW effort. CCD could continue to exist for Solaris 10 but > for future releases, externally-derived open source could come through > SFW.
I don't like this. The problem with it is that if it follows existing practices with SFW, then the stability constraints rapidly result in fossilization. Now, either we can get to a state where we can rapidly integrate new versions of software into the stable SFW tree very soon after their release (which seems unlikely, given that much of the software we're talking about doesn't have strong stability guarantees), or we need a separate track into which the new versions can be injected. And yes, this will often mean that there are multiple versions of the same app on the system at the same time. So I think we need at least 2 different efforts. What the second one ought to be based on I'm not sure. (And yes, even for the software I myself build and maintain, I usually find myself maintaining multiple versions - one for stability and maintaining dependencies, and a second to get all the new features, and maybe others.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
