Hmmm... Blastwave isn't the only wget (and therefore pkg-get)
service around. :) Steve Christensen's SunFreeware site
(http://www.sunfreeware.com) has been around for 14 years, and
also supports pkg-get access.
Not speaking in any way for Sun, but I *like* having these
folks managing the OSS pool of packages for us. If you look
at the list of "Credits" on SunFreeware, or "Who is" on
Blastwave, you'll notice that they are not just one guy running
make a million times on a box in his garage... they are
thriving communities of developers. Just like us. :D
bill.
David J. Orman wrote:
Yes it does. Have you not heard of Blastwave.org?
Rich, I have a lot of respect for you, did half of my email get cut off?
"Blastwave fills this void pretty well, but it's not Sun supported." <-- one of
the points made.
Also, in my original mail:
"Now, I run Solaris on my servers. Guess what though, #1 - I have to keep a few FreeBSD boxes around, because I can't maintain a whole bunch of software via hand compiling it/keeping up with security updates. I keep trying to get rid of them, so I can only maintain one platform, but it's not going to happen.
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Blastwave doesn't do it for me, simply because if Dennis and the other hardworking
people involved someday decide to do something else, I'll be stuck in a software
back alley. I want something supported by Sun, that's why people pay for support
contracts (Sun's supposed new bread-and-butter.)"
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Let me know if my mails were truncated, I'd hate for people to get the wrong
impression!
Cheers,
David
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