Well, unless I am mistaken, DevPro does not deliver packages bundled with Solaris. Thus a user that wants to use OpenGrok would have to install the IPS image from the OpenSolaris repository, and install Sun Studio. If Sun Studio for OpenSolaris was made available in a repository and that repository included a package separately installable that had Exuberant CTags, then I guess it wouldn't be a problem. But failing that, it would make the barrier to entry of OpenGrok very high.
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > What's the problem with them being in different consolidations? > We have lots of cross-consolidation dependencies, including those of > External/Volatile interfaces. The only obvious complication > I see is that if OpenGrok and CTags are in different consolidations, a > contract will be needed for the interfaces used, since Volatile interfaces > are treated as effectively Consolidation Private for Contract purposes. > > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > Brian Utterback wrote: >> Another issue has come up. The OpenGrok case (pending, not yet >> submitted) has a dependency on Exuberant CTags. In fact, this dependency >> is what has delayed the filing. In any case, the desire is to have >> OpenGrok integrate in the SFW consolidation for inclusion in >> OpenSolaris. However, OpenGrok requires Exuberant CTags to run work. >> Since this case proposes to integrate Exuberant CTags into the DevPro >> consolidation, this leaves us with a quandary. >> >> One possibility is to deliver OpenGrok into DevPro. The OpenGrok team >> wants to deliver to OpenSolaris, I don't know how the DevPro people feel >> about this. Another is to deliver Exuberant CTags into SFW. I suspect >> that the DevPro people will still want it in DevPro because of the >> support of prior Solaris versions and other platforms. And the last >> possibility is to deliver a private copy of Exuberant CTags with >> OpenGrok, suitably disguised to prevent users from finding it. >> >> Is there a precedent for this situation? Any idea on the best course of >> action? >> > > -- blu "Murderous organizations have increased in size and scope; they are more daring, they are served by the most terrible weapons offered by modern science, and the world is nowadays threatened by new forces which, if recklessly unchained, may some day wreck universal destruction." - Arthur Griffith, 1898 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom
