On 1/31/07, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 31-Jan-07, at 11:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> It is "super easy" (IMO) for people to get Solaris, and the >> OpenSolaris code. The hack on it and c > ontribute part is hard because of closed_bins and the integration > process respectively. > > What's difficult about the closed bins apart from not being able > to port to a different architecture or chance the bits in closed_bins? > > Nobody likes the closed_bins; but it's not under our control.... Rubbish. It can be reimplemented. Are we seriously to believe that sun doesn't have the enigneering muscle to reimplement 150 small utility functions?The good chunk of closed bins can be taken from gnu/bsd, there's only a couple libs (ipsec is one, and the critical one that you can't build ON at all, even in a degraded state, is libc_i18n.a )
I think what Casper is hinting at, as I have seen many other Sun employee's also hint at, is that we do not need to wait for Sun to fix this problem. -- Eric Enright _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
