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.). >
I agree with this and would also posit that whether or not Sun Studio is present is not PSARC's problem but rather a problem for the relevant business group in Sun to think about and decide about what to do. Darren
