There is a number of ongoing efforts that haven't been finished yet. They vary in complexity and importance, but they can all be considered important, as they concern core packages. I'll list the projects here, and I'd like to ask people who know the status of the project (e.g. what's missing), to reply and describe what the projects are blocking on. Also, if the list is incomplete, feel free to add missing items.
== krb5_lib == Contributors: Dagobert, Maciej Status: active Missing: The library split recipe is done, but the build links against an old version of libkdb5.so from /opt/csw/lib. There are some binaries depending on libkdb5.so.4, e.g. /opt/csw/sbin/kadmind, so if we aren't updating this binary just yet, we need to split libkdb5.so.4 into a separate package. == PHP 5 == Contributors: Ben Status: used to be active, but no activity in last weeks Missing: <fill in> == Perl 5.12.4 == Works on the update to 5.12.4 are on the way. There are some failing tests. Dagobert is working on this. Contributors: Dagobert, El_Che (from #opencsw) Status: active Missing: <fill in> == GCC 4.6.1 == Contributors: Maciej Status: active Missing: gcc-4.6.1 builds, except the Ada frontend. Ada needs the PPL library which doesn't currently compile. Help would be appreciated, as debugging PPL is separate from everything else. Also, g++ was broken, and I'm rebuilding it to see if my guess about what was broken, was right. == MySQL 5.1 == Contributors: Maciej, Dagobert (alternatives support for 5.0) Status: stale Missing: 5.1 itself builds. There are conflicting binaries with 5.0. The 5.0 recipe has been updated to use alternatives; the 5.1 recipe needs updating the same way. There are no other known blockers. == PostgreSQL 9.x == Contributors: Maciej Status: stale Missing: There's a lot of moving of shared libraries to be done. The binaries themselves compile fine, but there are problems with 32/64 bits, where data from 32-bit binaries are incomaptible with the 64-bit binaries. The main issue is how to package PostgreSQL so that multiple versions can be installed at the same time. The builds I worked on use /opt/csw (and not /opt/csw/postgresql). == ImageMagick 64-bit == Contributors: Roger Hakansson Status: stale? Missing: <fill in> == Ruby 1.9 == Contributors: Ben Status: ? Missing: <fill in> == Python 2.7, Python 3.1 == Contributors: Maciej Status: stale Missing: No fundamental problems; rebuilds needed, dep refreshment needed, testing needed. == Sendmail with largefile suport == Contributors: Peter B Status: ? Missing: <fill in> --------------------- That's all I could write from the top of my head. All the work that has been done already, is committed to the repository. As a project, we'll be better off if we focus on one project at a time and get it finished, meaning, completed enough to be pushed out to the world. This way, we deliver to our users. Perhaps some of the projects are very close to completion, and just a little help could get them released. For example, Ben has been working on PHP, but he's now focusing on the release engine. It's clear that the release engine has more priority, but meanwhile, perhaps another person could step in and move the php project forwards. I'm sure Ben would be happy to provide more details on what's the state of the project and what's left to be done. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
