Darren J Moffat wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Is there a particular reason that it's desirable to make the patch >> tool sources available soon? There hasn't been any request from the >> community for even redistributable binaries, so at the moment I'd have >> to judge the interest as very low. > > I've always thought that the patch tools are really only interesting > to Sun's distribution anyway. Particularly because there is only > one namespace for patches and that is controlled by Sun. >
Yeah, that's a big issue - I don't see it as being particularly useful in that context, and I'm aware that we have any plans to change that situation. > Personally I currently have a downer on patches and would love to > have the time to investigate if they should be abandoned in favour > of what most Linux based distros do ie just ship new full packages > (RPMs in their case usually) with a higher version number. > We have people looking into that and other issues, so you probably don't need to spend your own precious time on it, Darren ;-) For what it's worth, I think it would be a good change. I'd be surprised if any of the other OpenSolaris distributions chose to do anything like the Solaris patch model. Dave
