On 11/21/05, Patrick Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 16:08, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > A build system is being worked on that results in scripts and diffs > > being available also. > good to know! > > > As for not being "open". Just join. You can shell account and look > > around. How "closed" is that? > the "just join" part is what makes it closed.
oh ? > for pmpkg, just download the latest tarball, Well I guess I need to figure out how to get a subversion server up and running as well as a few other things. I'll have a look around and see what I have on hand. The idea is to make everything public but there is little added value. Simply putting the diffs out doesn't do anything for the quality or supply of the software packages. We would have to go back and get all 1290 packages into the system and then get the diffs and scripts exposed and .. what? Downloadable such that you can build it all on your own system? Is that the magic bullet that makes for an "open source" project ? Truth is .. I don't know. I would think that having it all open is a good first step and then move forward from there. The nice thing is that the pkg tools are now avail in a binary redistributible form and that makes it a lot easier to install a SVR4 type package. All of the SUNW dependencies are the next hurdle as well as the package database. Dennis
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