On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:15:21 -0400
Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> > nice to see it's an alive project, but can we get also the source
> > rpm or the mz.tgz archive? Or also the sources moved to a git
> > repository?
>
> It's about 99% in bash (with a small amount of JavaScript), so all the
> code is in the RPM. The one exception may be the mz.spec file is not
> in the RPM, so I put that up in the files section of SourceForge
> also. (Oh wait, /usr/local/sbin/smiucv is compiled C code, but in an
> amazingly cool fashion, Leland Lucius put the C code in the smaclient
> bash script!)
not having the source archive available makes it impossible to adapt
the packaging to distribution standards (eg. remove the need to run the
setgroupown script) and thus blocks direct inclusion in distros. Which
opens one more question - what architecture is required for the
"server" rpm, is it s390x only or can it be installed on eg. x86_64
host?
> I did not set up a git repository (but could - probably subversion
> though) as nobody has expressed an interest in contributing.
> Certainly it's open for contributions - that's probably the most
> important aspect of open source.
May be also the chicken & egg situation, no repo, no contribution and
vice versa. And no problem with subversion, it can be easily converted
to git locally :-)
Dan
> I'll throw out one enticement: the new z/VM drill down page is an
> attempt to show the health of z/VM in a single page to those who may
> not know too much about z/VM. See screen shot 4/4 (or try the code
> yourself :)). Of course, it's just a "stake in the ground" and needs
> more work, but it's something that may already be helpful to many
> shops.
>
> "Mike MacIsaac" <mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com>
>
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