Keith M Wesolowski writes: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:08:05AM -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > > David.Comay at sun.com wrote: > > >Stephen, > > > > > >This looks good. I only have a few comments. > > > > > >> 3.1 Create new communities: > > > > > >> - Ports > > > > > >Given the existing "OpenSolaris Ports Collection" project, I wonder if > > >a better name for this community is "Platforms". > > > > That sounds good. I think I suggested 'Platform Ports' in the other > > thread. We can ask the community's opinion since they might have a > > vested interest ;-) > > Yes. Though I also wonder whether the software porting community is > actually a part of the external software integration (nee Freeware) > community - they seem to have very similar purposes (a port > specifically of the BSD Ports repository would be a project within > that Group).
Right; that's what I was expecting here. There are two completely different "ports" going on -- one centering on getting software to work on Solaris so that more things are available, and the other on getting Solaris to run on different hardware. The former looks like this: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ The latter is more like: http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/291.paper/291.paper.html > Which isn't to say that Platforms isn't the right name > for this organisation, just that there may be more inconsistencies > lurking here. Using the name "Platforms" for porting software over to run on Solaris makes no sense to me. It sounds like the latter effort, but the existing "OpenSolaris Ports Collection" is clearly about the former. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
