Brandorr wrote: > Proposal: Adopt Conary as the standard packaging and distribution > framework for OpenSolaris. >
It's taken some time to wade through this discussion and the related threads it spawned. Since it seems the actual proposal has been amended to a project which will *investigate* a port of Conary to OpenSolaris, I will provide a +1. That done, I'll just add that I found much of the discussion disappointing, especially some of the alarmist postings to sysadmin-discuss, and the particularly negative assumptions about the motivations behind IPS or some of us at Sun. We really are on the same side, which is to make OpenSolaris the best OS there is. Please try to remember that, even if we disagree about how to go about it. My fear is that this project will contribute to a lesser result than we might have were its participants' energies directed towards one of the existing projects. I note that in the case of SVR4, the source has been open for 18 months, yet only Peter Tribble has submitted any contributions towards improving it (and they're much appreciated!). I find that quite disheartening, and am somewhat mystified as to why the widespread recognition that there's a need to improve things hasn't lead to energy being put there. Ultimately, while I've chosen to provide a vote in favor of this proposal, it's only because philosophically I don't feel it's my job to tell someone they can't pursue something in OpenSolaris. However, I hope you and the others who might choose to work on this project will give serious consideration to not going forward with it and putting your energies into IPS or Caiman instead. We could use the help. Dave
