Joerg Schilling wrote: > Ben <BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote: > >> If and when OpenSolaris "blesses" a specific SCM, I think we ought to use >> it, because this project is meant to be a port of OpenSolaris, not an >> offshoot, and we really ought to remain part of the family as much as >> possible. I do wonder why the Sun guys didn't add network support to >> SCCS/TW and just release that as open source, too. It's not like doing so >> would divulge any top secret trade secrets. > > There are many things that have been promised but not yet turned into reality > by Sun.
We really don't need that kind of comment Joerg and I'd have hoped by now that you would know why these things take the time they do. As for answering the original question it is all about time to do the analysis to ensure that Sun has all of the necessary legal rights to release the source. This stuff has to be done carefully and correctly otherwise there could be legal repercussions and I'm sure none of us want that for OpenSolaris. There is only a limited amount of resources available for this, plus remember it actually COSTS Sun money do to some of the legal analysis so we have to ensure that we do the most important things first. Getting the sources to the storage consolidation and things like libm were obviously deemed more important that the source to TW. -- Darren J Moffat
