girish writes: > Ok. I will try to explain more clearly (not easy when your native language is > not English :) ).
Nah, mine's assembly. ;-} > [U]I am only interested in running the production release of Solaris[/U] > which as of now is Solaris 10. Right. > And I would love to have the source code for it so that I can make changes > and recompile or analyze the working of the system. It may be possible to purchase the source code of S10. I don't know what the issues are; you'll need to contact Sun's support group to get pointers. That's not this mailing list. > The source code that is available (nevada) should be close to whats running > on my system (Solaris 10 ) but close is good enough for me. Yes, it's close. In many cases, it's identical. But if you were looking for something that you could recompile and get identical bits, you won't have that. > I need the "exact" code from which Solaris 10 was compiled from. As above, S10 isn't OpenSolaris. Sun (at one time in the past) had several non-open source distributions for sale or download under various terms. I don't know the state of those; you'll need to contact support. > We have already discussed that it's not feasible to release the source code > for Solaris 10 and I get that. Right. > But when the offcial/production release of Solaris 11 is out will I be able > to goto Sun.com or OpenSolaris.org and download the sources. Will I be able > todo that? Can you please tell me in yes or no :) "Three." ;-} Some components are binary only because Sun doesn't own the rights to the code, and therefore can't give it away. For example, Solaris currently includes CDE. I don't know for _certain_ whether S11 (which doesn't exist yet) will include CDE, but I'd think it's a good bet that it will. That code doesn't belong to Sun and thus won't be something you can download. In addition, the source tree itself is a moving target. However, I'd certainly expect us to produce a snapshot or release tag of an important event like that so that you'd be able to get the exact references sources from the source repository. It's still very hard for me to tell what will answer your questions, but I _think_ what you're really after here is the roadmap for source release. If so, then: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/conslist/ I guess I don't really know what you mean by the sources for S11. Solaris is quite large and is constructed of components drawn from many places, including many external bits. Those are then compiled and assembled into images suitable for installation (this is the non-open "distribution" part of the equation). If you're asking for a single tar.gz image containing all of the source files where you can just type "make" and get a DVD image then, no, I don't think we're going to deliver such a thing. I don't think it's really in scope for OpenSolaris (though I wouldn't argue against someone attempting it). -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
