> MC wrote: > > Not that I care for bureaucracy, and not that I > know what is happening here, but... > > > > I think if you strong-arm past the OpenSolaris > community bureaucracy (and again, not saying you are, > because I don't know much about it), it'll be > archived forever and referenced in the future to show > how Sun only takes said OpenSolaris bureaucracy > seriously when it is convenient for them. > > > > > Context?
Where's the pointer to formal buy-in by the OGB for the use of Indiana as _the_ OpenSolaris reference distro? Where's at least a broad _agreement_ between Sun and the OGB that a program will be developed to (a) define what constitutes a compatible distro, and (b) allow compatible distros to use the OpenSolaris trademark? Possibly not necessary to have, but certainly polite and credibility-enhancing, IMO. Heck, I'm not even crazy about the idea of a _reference_ distro; makes the distro itself the definition of compatibility, which is ugly. I like the idea of a _spec_ that's the reference, along with a primary _sample_ distro, and equal footing for anybody that meets the spec. Kind of like (to go way back) distinguishing between the SVID and the System V code base. Well, why not write an OpenSolaris reference addendum to SUSv3 that (a) includes presumably already permitted deviations, and (b) defines anything else needed to constitute a compatible distro, including references to SPARC and x86 ABI docs, etc? Some notes as to divergences (such as packaging) between same and comparable build SXCE might also be in order, I think. Anything less than starting with a spec (rather than a codebase) is amateurish, I think. Besides, unless that sort of rigorous documentation evolves alongside, it tends not to get done, at least to the point it ought to be, namely where (if one made no mistakes) one could write code, makefiles, packaging scripts, etc, offline on another sort of system, copy them over, type one command on the target system, and have it all work, simply by following the spec and referenced docs; and further, where said packages would (modulo library versioning and such) be ABI compatible across distros on the build platform. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
