Chris Quenelle wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for all the good info.  I'll be back in touch
> after I've had a chance to play around some more.
> 
> More info about the Sun Studio effort:
> We're currently planning to work on releasing our development
> bits of the tools and compilers as a first step through
> the Indiana depot.  Doing so with the SS12 FCS bits has issues
> because they're not known to be redistributable yet, and
> that's one of the features of Indiana.  I heard second hand
> talk about an alternate depot for non redistributable stuff,
> so that might be an option.  As far as patch updates, we don't
> currently have any sort of "Freshbitting" process in place for
> our existing packages, (to release patched updates of FCS bits),
> so we can't leverage on top of that.
> 
> So that's the status.  We have to walk before we can run.
> 
> --chris
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Note that with solaris.py you can pick and choose binaries
from different packages if that's needed; the simplest
method seems to be just to build the latest packages
and import those directly.

- Bart


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