On 02/11/2007, Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 02/11/2007, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote: > > > >> As an aside, has gcc already moved to /usr/bin? > >> > >> One nagging thought about moving the compilers to /usr/bin is that it > >> seems to give a level of precedence to the GNU compilers and tools that > >> is higher than we offer for our *own* tools (Studio). > >> > >> I.e. if gdb and gcc are in /usr/bin, then why not dbx and cc? > >> > >> I realize that this may not be the place to fully explore the idea of > >> bundling Studio, but I'd hate for other parties to miscontrue this > >> action as meaning our own Studio tools were "2nd class" on Solaris systems. > >> > > > > One could argue that as long as Sun Studio isn't redistributable and > > isn't open source (like was promised 2 years ago by Schwartz) it is a > > second class citizen in the OpenSolaris community. I certainly feel > > like one when I'm using it sometimes (i.e. tarballs don't always > > include latest patches, etc.). > > > Which argues for Sun Studio being properly included in Solaris, even it > it is > not provided on OpenSolaris. > > Maybe I'm biased, but links such as /usr/bin/java -> ../jdk/<mummble> would > be appropriate. This seems to work well for the DEVX releases becasue > Sun Studio is bundled. Not so well for a vanilla Express.
And especially not well in light of the fact that Express is supposed to be discontinued; leaving us with only a (*dear <insert deity here> I hope) reference distribution. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
