On 7/13/05, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 07:57, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:49:59AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > The problem with that is since the Companion CD is only updated with new > > > Solaris releases, you'ld be stuck with whatever the latest version on a > > > > That can be changed. I wasn't sure we were really ready for this > > discussion, but since we're having it anyway, don't consider anything > > sacred.
Why not open up a new discussion about this and start with a clean slate? What if it were possible to take some grand unified approach and take genunix as a host site and then take everything from Blastwave and then everything from SunFreeware and work together with compromises being made and perhaps with a pile of work we can have a single source site for the OpenSolaris project? The people are here and the skills are here and the motivation is here. There are issues about package management here and the pkgadd command and the package database format. There are issues with the portage approach. But as fearlesslly as possible I am really happy that it was someone else that brought this up. If I were to bring it up then I'd fear that people would think I was trying to stir up trouble or begin the old fight about Companion CD versus community involvement etc etc. Let's say that nothing is sacred and that it IS possible to have a community project that is open to people and allows for some new grand unified software base to be built. I know where about 1092 software packages are at the moment but what is that really other than a really nice start? The real solution is not in offering up a software service but in developing a "grand unified software software" service that can act as a non-OS open source software base of operations for the OpenSolaris project. There is no reason that this can not be built under the umbrella of the genunix project. Dennis Clarke Director and Admin for blastwave.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
