John Plocher wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> Rather than complaining, we should be actively figuring out how to solve
> this problem:
>
> We want to be able to build the thousands and thousands of
> FOSS components out there and make them available to our users.
> How can we make this happen?
Yes! I want to figure out a solution to make everyone happy. I'd
really really like to do this quickly, so that cases like unison, star,
and even unzoo, have a way to deliver bits to customer, without having
to achieve unreasonable bars set for "core" components, and without risk
of degrading the overall quality of a (as yet undetermined) "core" product.
IMO, what we really need is a Sun-supported version of "blastwave", with
"caveat emptor" plastered over its contents. I had believed that this
was what IPS was supposed to bring us. But unfortunately (IMO), we have
projects like the aforementioned which seem determined to deliver into
the WOS asap, without waiting for what might perhaps be a better and
simpler IPS-based approach. (And of course, I don't recall any ARC
cases covering IPS itself yet... so ARC can hardly ask these FOSS
projects to use it!)
-- Garrett
