> Not everyone agrees with you on this. It is my understanding that SXCE > releases will continue, and until such time as standards compliancy is > actually considered a goal of Indiana, it is of little interest. > Frankly, if forced to discontinue my reliance on SXCE, I will likely go > to ShilliX, as said compliancy is one of ShilliX's expressed goals.
Can you provide some details on why you think Indiana is or will be any less standard's compliant than SXCE is? It may very well turn out that it may be less compliant but that hasn't occurred yet and so I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. > SXCE does what I want. I want extensions on top of that functionality, > which SXCE has delivered on. I don't want Ian (or anyone else) telling > me I'm wrong and my thinking is outdated. These are my needs. They are > what drive my choices. Indiana can have my attention when it's goals > are more in-line with my needs. First of all, Indiana isn't about Ian. All of the work being done under the Indiana umbrella were things in progress before he joined the community. Many of us believe those are projects that need to be done in order to make OpenSolaris/Solaris succeed in the future. Could you elucidate the aspects of SXCE that you value which you think are not in Indiana or will not be in Indiana? I ask because for those of us working on the latter, we definitely don't want to lose sight of the positive aspects of SXCE that folks are relying on. At the moment, Indiana is merely a prototype, a work in progress. It's made up of strictly redistributable components so there are a number of things in SXCE that don't currently show up. Over time, I expect more of those things to be made available either by being emancipated or by providing a secondary package repository that includes those components. Although we obviously don't want to force you to pay attention to Indiana now, providing feedback now and being part of the project makes it more likely that we'll be building something that you and others find useful. dsc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
