James Gates writes: > This is part of the effort to integrate that huge list of FOSS into Open > Solaris managed by Kelly Nishimura (See [1] & [2]). RPE was given a > section of the list, and Venky volunteered (along with other RPE > engineers) to perform the integration. I don't think he has any > particular affiliation with the product or community, and there is no > "project team" as such. So I don't know if anyone ever intended (or has > the time) to work with the community on such things as IPv6 support.
Not trying to be a pessimist, but what are the odds if we can't participate even minimally in the source community that we'll be able to update and maintain this software over time? Building and shipping new versions (and keeping up with occasional upstream portability blunders) also takes non-zero effort. History has shown that we do a pretty good job of integrating random things into (for example) the Companion CD, but then a spotty job of preventing them from accumulating dust ... to the point where many of them are much more of a distraction than a feature. I hope it's not an effort to get something for nothing. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
