--- On Sat, 7/24/10, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ken Mays wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > I'm taking a stab at this but I heard Joerg mentioned
> an issue with moving beyond ON snv_130. Then, you brought up
> some things about not being able to build ON 135+, X b143+,
> GNOME/JDS, and a few things without IPS being a part of the
> distro. So, IPS is definitely on the menu.
> >
> > Can Oracle Engineering provide someone like Joerg what
> he needs to update his external SchilliX distro to implement
> ON snv_145/IPS 134?
>
> I'm guessing you're talking to me? I have
> no idea what Joerg needs, but we've
> already provided the community with everything they need to
> build current ON &
> IPS bits, as evidenced by multiple external community
> members doing so. You
> do need a recent build of IPS to build ON builds 136 &
> later, and X builds
> 144 & later, but that's fully available from the
> pkg-gate sources on the
> opensolaris hg repos.
>
> --
> -Alan Coopersmith-
> [email protected]
> Oracle Solaris Platform
> Engineering: X Window System
Well, I agree. Someone can still obtain the latest ON source and work
with Sun Studio 12.1 to build it. Mostly have to go through the motions
and burn a few candles.
~ Ken
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