This case timed out and approved on 01/23/2009. The following feedbacks were received for this case.
1. Check with legal about the possibility of static linking with libreadline 2. Leverage SUNWncurses 3. Communicate with the stakeholder teams., firefox/thunderbird/OpenOffice to leverage the library delivered by this case. Pl. remove the case from this weeks' active ones. Thanks, Suresh Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > Thanks much. It turns out that there was a recent communication by > project team with the owner of common spellcheck backend used by these > 3 apps and they have agree to look into replacing their private copy > with the delivery of this project. It was mistake from my part in > saying that we did not communicate. > > Regards, > Suresh > > Nicolas Williams wrote: >> 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 >> >
