James Carlson wrote:
Darren Reed wrote:
How many times have you seen people on the 'web clamour about "why
didn't they open source it if they're going to discontinue it?"?
Sun *DID* open source it -- well over four years ago. No more "open
sourcing" is needed to get snoop out there.
Where can I download snoop.tar.gz to build and compile on Linux?
Or even just to get all of the current decoders, etc, for snoop on
Solaris 8, 9 or 10?
While it might be "open source'd", because it is all CDDL'd, today it is
part of OpenSolaris. To do any work on it today is thus not attractive
for anyone outside of Sun.
In other words, you've got the cart before the horse. If there is
indeed someone out there who wants to take the snoop sources and run a
new project on sourceforge with them, then more power to that person.
Good luck with it. You (or anyone else; Sun employee or not) can do
that right _now_ without waiting for any special approval or changes in
ON. The source is free for the taking. Today.
I don't believe that we need two projects maintaining a program called
"snoop". Furthermore, I can't see how anyone would be attracted to work
on something outside of opensolaris when the "official" one is at
opensolaris.
...
You can't treat sourceforge (or any other such site) as a virtual India
where out-of-date projects can be sent for death by maintenance. It
won't work.
How do you know that?
Has it been tried before?
If it hasn't, isn't it worth trying out?
As far as I can see, we've got everything to gain and nothing to lose by
trying it.
Darren
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