Richard Lowe wrote: > John Plocher wrote: > > Keith M Wesolowski wrote: [snip] > > In much the same way that we generate C sources via rpcgen, the > > ksh93 build process could [diff/patch, rename, exclude, etc] the > > files found in the baseline tree to create the OpenSolaris-specific > > source tree. And then build that tree. > > No. > No no no no no. > No. > > This is not analogous to rpcgen, this is patching a fairly large component > into the ON world *at build time*. Such that we don't actually have the > sources we build in the tree at all, but instead have the original sources > and a collection of hard to maintain, impossible to cscope, impossible to > opengrok patches and scripts to perturb them into buildable form as part of > the build. > > This is work that should be done prior to integration, with only the results > being integrated. In fact, this is work Roland *has* done prior to > integration, what we're discussing is the "with only the results..." part. > > Did I say No already? > Please. No.
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