Shawn Walker wrote:
>> There was some confusion internally, but I believe that it has been >> resolved. SXCE is not going away any time soon. It serves several >> functions, one of which is as a beta test version of the next >> Solaris release. As long as the next marketing release of Solaris >> contains proprietary bits (i.e. the closed branch) that Sun wants >> to be available for testing, then SXCE must continue. > > There must still be confusion then. The proprietary bits part makes > sense, but I expect SXCE at least to become a derivative of Indiana > eventually then considering it wouldn't make great financial and > resource sense to duplicate efforts (I suspect anyway). > I think that you need to remember that SXCE serves more than one purpose. One purpose is to serve as the base binary distribution system on which OpenSolaris development is based. This is required because not all of the consolidations have been open sourced yet, nor all of the code in the ones that have been open sourced. In this capacity, once Indiana is complete, this need will disappear. But SXCE also serves as the beta test platform for the next release of Solaris. As long as Solaris is a separate distribution from Indiana that contains different bits, then the need for SXCE will continue to exist. -- blu "You've added a new disk. Do you want to replace your current drive, protect your data from a drive failure or expand your storage capacity?" - Disk management as it should be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
