See also "Re: [pkg-discuss] Coexistence of MySQL version 5.0 and 5.1" over on pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org.
-- Lars Matt.Ingenthron at Sun.COM wrote, On 07/22/08 08:28 PM: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > > webstack-discuss mailing list > webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss
