On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:59 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Friday 02 June 2006 07:38 am, James Carlson wrote: > > I don't see how having an accumulation of source code that's known to > > work on a particular operating system (and some of which that might > > have needed to be tweaked to do so) is itself a bad thing. In fact, I > > think it's helpful for those who are building distributions. > > I agree, it is EXCELLENT! What is bad is that somehow it is being twisted by > folks such as yourself that OpenSolaris includes those projects as well, and > this is just not so. > > OpenSolaris is the open components as we know it today, it is what is ON, for > the most part. I say for the most part as if Sun wants to do the write thing > wtih the community, they will rid themself of all proprietary pieces, and at > the end of the day OpenSolaris will have no closed binaries that ship with > it. > > The fact that what *IS* OpenSolaris is used by other distributions, Sun's SX > or Solaris in itself, doesn't make those packages that support those systems > to be a part of OpenSolaris. > > I only take exception with this one piece, but it is an important concept > that > not only Sun, but the community must realize so a truely open system can be > developed. > > When JDS and X are putback into the OpenSolaris components of Solaris. then > to > me they will be a part of OpenSolaris.
Regarding this last statement. Could we expect upstream putback any time soon? I think JDS and X changes must be putback into their upstreams sooner or later... The problem I'm seeing is that SVR4 packaging system wasn't developed to inter-operate with upstream tarballs and patching system is not an easy one to enable. At least it is not as easy as with Debian or RPM. That means patches for particular upstream project A are not part of A SVR4 package itself and instead stored separately somewhere. This is what other distributions do, their *source* packages usually contains upstream tarball + set of distribution patches on top of it. And sooner or later those patches will migrate to their upstream or simply rejected. Shouldn't OpenSolaris OSS components(Xorg, JDS, etc) follow similar rules? Does it make sense? Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
