Alan DuBoff wrote:
I'll watch to see what Alec might have to say, but in general this is going to
be one very high maintenance package, any way we look at it. We do need the
software, it just has a lot of strings attached from any perspective we look
at it, unless the software is just left vulnerable.
Agreed, and at some level or another, this project will just be
packaging what the community around the given component develops, bug
for bug complete. I suspect users will understand that already, though
it doesn't obviate the need to communicate it.
It'll be a tough balance to strike, since not only is it the version
that Zend/MySQL and others ship that the project will need to track, but
it may also need to track what's in popular consumption and/or in other
packaging projects (i.e. distributions). I will say it's my opinion
that while there are many things we *could* do, we should be very
judicious about the steps taken so it won't be too much effort to keep
up with how the other projects evolve.
This is all the more reason the OpenSolaris project community input is
important.
- Matt
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