Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
> I'm not interested in bashing opensolaris the distribution, I'm more
> interested in detailing the differences so we know what to expect. I
> know a lot of things are in the works, but none of them went through
> arc afaik
Some have gone through ARC, others are working on it. (IPS for instance
had a pre-inception ARC review, but has not yet finished preparing the
documents needed to move on to the next stage of ARC review.)
> last time I forgot about:
> - dtterm which is not available in opensolaris
That's an example of one which was ARC'ed - the EOL of CDE was ARC'ed
in 2005, and the release notes for Solaris 10 update 4 and later contain
the "CDE may not be in future releases of Solaris" warning.
We saved some effort on the SVR4->IPS conversion by not converting
packages we'd just turn around and remove since they were being EOL'ed -
that includes Xsun and most of CDE in the part of the system I know best.
We also accelerated the /usr/openwin -> /usr/X11 migration in the IPS
packages, since many of the legacy bits still stuck in /usr/openwin (like
Xsun) weren't coming forward to IPS, and moving the rest in the conversion
was easy. (Though as discussed recently in xwin-discuss, the next step
will be migration from /usr/X11 -> /usr.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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