On 5/27/09, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
> ????? ???????????? wrote:
>
> > On 5/26/09, Jim Walker <James.Walker at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I. Szczesniak wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >  >         Unlike previous releases, 5.10.x will not integrate in to
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > O/N, but
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >  >         will instead move to SFW.
> > > > >
> > > > >  I'll be glad to see it go (eventually) for the improvement in build
> > > > >  time,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Is this the only justification? Bits delivered via SFW commonly have
> > > > substandard quality and are very poorly integrated. I fear that
> > > > putting a critical system component such as perl into SFW will affect
> > > > the quality of Opensolaris as whole piece.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >  I disagree. In general, the SFW pkgs are very high quality.
> > >
> >
> > I disagree. SFW is the trashcan repository of Opensolaris where people
> > invest little love for details. Software is integrated once and then
> > no one cares about the software - gcc, python, bash are prime examples
> > of neglect.
> >
>
>  As someone who's team contributes to both ON and SFW I very much object to
> that allegation we apply the same quality to all our work regardless of what
> consolidation it goes in to.  We choose the consolidation we deliver to
> carefully based on the requirements of the component we are working on.

Why do components in ONNV receive regular maintenance and security
updates and those in SFW do not even receive critical security
updates?
Sun treats the software life cycle differently, based on the choice of
consolidation. The consolidation choice defines the importance of
components and critical software goes into ONNV.

>  This alias is not an appropriate place for further discussion of this topic
> though as it is not related to the Perl case (the quality of the upstream
> Perl won't magically change) nor is it actually architectural in nature.

This alias is appropriate place, the case describes that the project
team will deliver perl 5.10 into SFW instead of ONNV, making this
RELEVANT.

The project team is free to remove the notion of SFW from this case
and deliver the perl upgrade into ONNV instead. In that case I will
drop my objections.
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