On 9/13/07, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:40:31PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:46 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > The current prototype can convert SysV packages to the new form, > > > recognizing resources it has mechanisms for (and dropping the > > > scripting). > > > > If scripting is completely discarded, this sounds more like a transition > > aid rather than a true conversion. > > It *is* a prototype. We plan on converting the WOS by hand. It's the > packages outside Solaris that are more interesting. I believe that Stephen > has mentioned in some venue that there are multiple ways to transition, and > while we don't have the details worked out yet (concentrating on the > immediate Indiana release means it's not at the top of our to-do lists), > it's obviously something we'll have to cover and provide useful mechanisms > for people to use. We know we can't change the world overnight.
Now I might be reading too much into this, but that sounds rather like you've already gone beyond the 'seek to develop' stage that the project proposal claims to be. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
