Jyri Virkki wrote: > Sunanda Menon wrote: > >> How should these symbolic links be customarily handled? >> > > The 'latest' symlink maintenance is something everyone seems to be > wondering about but nobody has looked into solving. I know Ruby team > also needed something here and IIRC many others as well. >
There was also a lot of angst about the fact that it existed at all in several threads on SFWNV. It appears that it's initial introduction was with the JDK, and there were several people who thought it shouldn't have gotten through ARC. On the other hand, there were others who thought it wasn't clean, but has worked out reasonably well. I'm probably on that side of the equation. By setting the path, you are in effect picking the stability level you're planning to work within (even if it, by definition, isn't stable). > My suggestion is to take on this effort; maybe initially work with > Prashant and webstack-discuss to come up with clearly laid out > requirements. Then work with pkg-discuss community to look into > solutions which meet those. Perhaps natively within IPS or as a > reusable tool you could write. It'd be great to solve this for everyone. > +1 It would be good to go look at the archives to be sure any issues which were brought up back then are pro-actively addressed. - Matt -- Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ email: matt.ingenthron at sun.com Phone: 310-242-6439 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/attachments/20080722/001919c3/attachment.html>
