On Mar 9, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Cyril Plisko wrote:
> why should the community naming at opensolaris.org reflect
> productisation
> plans of a single commercial body ? It may also suggest that community
> somehow doesn't support current SPARC and x86 ports, which would
> be odd.
> If tomorrow some company XYZ will decide to pure money into
> a (non-SPARC and non-x86) port, does that mean that such port
> should be removed from "Community-supported platforms" ?
>
> I think we just need to call it "platforms" (I would prefer "archs"
> [ for architectures ] personally, but that will inevitably clash
> with ARC).
Then we may be back to "Ports" or perhaps "Porting." ;-)
Seriously, I welcome suggestions on the topic.
I suggested the alternative of "Community-Supported Platforms" simply to
make it clear that the idea that the Community should cover the creation
and maintenance of OpenSolaris running on platforms other than "first
class"
ISAs - namely at this point supported SPARC and x86/x64 systems.
Even though it's not intentional, I'm not necessarily sure that the
issue
of application porting doesn't belong in a "Ports" Community, but that's
an argument for another time.
William Kucharski
