Bill Rushmore wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote:
Hello Bill,
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:28:32 PM, you wrote:
BR> I say this as someone who has no vested interest in Blastwave,
BR> Sunfreeware, or the companion CD but I still don't see the point, the
BR> "community" already has a more than one "project" to get pre-built open
BR> source software. I still can not see a reason to create yet another
BR> project unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the existing
BR> projects. I have no animosity towards Keith's proposal, just scratching
BR> my head and still wondering why it is even needed. Solaris/OpenSolaris
BR> has SFW so everything else you are on your own for anyway.
I myself would prefer open source software based on libraries already
included in Solaris (like OpenSSL) - something I can't get with
Blastwave.
I would too but sometimes the libraries are out of date.
Hi Bill,
Don't forget though, the out-of-date library problem should become much
less severe now that the consolidations where almost all those libraries
live (ON, SFW, and JDS) are open to co-development (for Nevada anyway...
and Solaris 10 via update releases, I think).
Solaris, for
good reason, has a slower release cycle. So for me having the extra
libraries is not that big of an issue because disk space is cheap but my
time isn't, I just want things to work.
BR> Besides Dennis has said something like this several times in this thread
BR> alone: if you think blastwave sucks then join the group and help fix
BR> things.
I heard that already from some Linux guys - why bother with Open Solaris -
there's already Linux, if there's something wrong come and join us and
help fix things...
Fortunately there's no one answer to all problems.
Let me explain my position just a little better. I am not saying that
there "should not" be another group, just that I don't think we really
need one.
But I don't think it would be a good idea to rule out a proven freeware
build system -- and one that carries advantages stemming from being
modeled after the ON (and therefore SFW) build systems -- without giving
it the opportunity to be used and scrutinized by the OpenSolaris community.
Eric
In my mind Blastwave, Sunfreeware, and others are addressing
the issue well enoungh (sure there can be improvement, I know they aren't
perfect). My opinion is let those projects take care of the outside
software and the OpenSolaris project (and Sun) should concetrate on SFW
and let others like Blastwave, Sunfreeware, and the OpenSolaris Distros
handle on they want to do things. Let me just add that this is just my
opinion of how I see it and I WILL support the new project if that is how
things go.
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