Shawn Walker wrote: > 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. > Not so fast...
Just 2 days ago Tim asserted that there will always be a difference between the Sun distribution and the OpenSolaris distribution. I believe these will mostly be additions. Besides, one great question to me is where OpenSolaris will get java? Sure, an distro can get either the Sun Java or (soon) the OpenJDK one, but it isn't owned by the OpenSolaris community. This is just a distro decision separable from a community. This seems to still be an open issue. Clearly, my suggestion only applies if a unique Sun distribution exists. - jek3
