On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:24:26PM -0700, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:13:27PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > I've been wondering about this recently. Why does it make sense for pkg > > to integrate into ON ? > > > > Particularly given that pkg is cross platform already. It seems to me > > that pkg being a consolidation that delivers to RE makes the most sense > > here. > > last i heard it was targeting on. i may have heard incorrectly, or that > plan may have changed, or it may change in the future. i personally > think it should go into on, but watever, i'm not really intertested in > having a debate about this now... :)
What really matters is: when will BFU and the update_* scripts be replaced with nightly/other tools that build IPS packages and publish them to developer repositories. Given that IPS runs on multiple OSes then it makes little sense to put it in the ONNV _gate_: how would you check out and build IPS on, say, Linux, or Windows? But there's no reason why the ONNV, or any other, _consolidation_ wouldn't be an appropriate home for IPS. Consolidation != gate; consolidation ~= c-team, rules, build schedule, what product it contributes to, one or more source code repositories, build tools, ... _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
