On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:29:33AM -0500, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > Thanks much for the suggestions, no, we haven't talked with these teams. > > All these products mentioned here are extremely widely used > cross-platform solutions in their respective areas, sourced from the > upstream communities to put in OpenSolaris, due to their very > cross-platform nature, I think this case makes little difference to > these products.
OTOH, Firefox and other apps also use SQLite3 in much the same way, and though we ship SQLite3 in OpenSolaris and though Firefox still uses a private version, we are coordinating so we can switch to having Firefox use the SQLite3 library shipped with OpenSolaris. If we can coordinate this for one library, why can't we for others? > (This is not to escape from the project team's responsibility to > communicate with the stakeholders, but in this specific instance stakes > are extremely low for them.) This is true. It's our responsibility to: a) ask the desktop (and other) teams what build configuration requirements they have for any one generic component, b) inform them that we're shipping that component in the OS. It's their responsibility to then c) switch to using the system version of that component instead of a private instance. (c) might well take a long time to happen. Nico --
