Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: > Even minor version bumps turn out to be porting projects > lately. Please read my analysis about the problem at > http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2015-January/019611.html
Dago's analysis is so right, as usual. Some core open source projects advance with such a speed that we, as a small community, small in contrast to Debian or similar, have much difficulties to follow. As an aside, this is why, I think more and more that, the road that Nexenta had taken, to use Debian packaging tools on Solaris is the one with the most momentum. Using the Solaris kernel and inner core tools, such as ZFS, zones, &c, with the Debian user space. However, even this road is not a smooth one as the biggest part of the open source projects are geared toward GNU/Linux. with its idiosyncrasies, and portability is less and less taken care of. To come back to the original subject, when packaging for a project such as Cairo, is quite nominal to encounter issues which arise from the porting side, not only of the project itself but also from the near to far environment. -- Peter
