Danek Duvall writes:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:34:08PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
> > What about "contracts" between individual projects, e.g. dtksh vs. ksh93
> > in OS/Net or dbx vs. ksh93 in OS/Net ? Would that be a justification to
> > ship the lint libraries (I guess the answer is "no") ?
> > 
> > Alternatively we could create something like a
> > "SUNWastprivateplayground" (e.g. "AST private API playground") package
> > which provides the private API add-ones as a seperate package stored at
> > the project website...
> > ... would it be allowed to have the package build pieces for such a
> > thing in usr/src/pgkdefs/ (e.g. we built the package but do not ship it
> > with Solaris nor ARC it (for now)) ?
> 
> Sure.  We've got about a dozen packages like that right now.  At least one
> of them (SUNWwbint) is used as part of the admin gate's CBE.

Don't forget SUNWzoneint.

> But I thought
> that's what SUNWastdev was all about.

Unfortunately, SUNWastdev is in SUNWCdev -- it's intended to be
delivered to customers who can't actually use it.

Yes, in a better world, I think SUNWastdev is exactly where such bits
would go.

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