Nicolas Williams wrote:
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:11:17PM -0800, Darren Reed wrote:
James Carlson wrote:
If nobody cares -- as it seems to be today -- then it'll never happen.
Well maybe that's not a bad idea - extract snoop from ON, convert it
into something that builds on Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 and whack it up on
sourceforge.
What's in it for us? It sounds like a waste of time.
It satisfies the desire at Sun to no longer do any work on it whilst
keeping it available for those that "need it."
OpenSolaris is [mostly] open source, snoop is in the open source part of
OpenSolaris. That should be enough.
Except that all changes to anything on opensolaris need to come from or
go through someone at Sun.
...
I would say it's silly because you're suggesting, I think, that someone
at Sun (?) do the work to get snoop to be a standalone tool that can be
hosted outside ON... but we all seem to agree that snoop is dead to us!
(except for compatibility reasons)
What is the "everything" that we've got to gain by doing this? Why
isn't snoop's presence in ONNV sufficiently "open source"?
So it is dead but we want to keep it in the source code tree for
opensolaris.
We don't dare remove it because there are scripts that exist that rely
on it.
We don't want to add new features to it because there are better tools
more worthy.
So we're left with this... thing... that rots.
IMHO, the current situation is far sillier than what I'm suggesting.
Darren
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