I know that Ian, in his capacity as LSB leader, has many opinions here, but I'd like to chime in with my own.
Darren J Moffat wrote: > But what is the purpose of such a reference ? To tell other people > they are doing it wrong ? To be the supported platform people point > to when an ISV starts porting their application ? Answers, in sequence: no and yes. The other OpenSolaris-based distros are already using different toolkits from SE. Can you say "incompatibility"? If not now, then certainly in the future. This is not a path you want to go down. > > I don't think saying Linux is in a mess because it doesn't have one is > fair here. OpenSolaris is very different it has Solaris as a legacy, > and it conforms to standards that many Linux distros don't. The longer you go without the officially-sponsored, Sun-blessed OpenSolaris distro, the more likely it is that downstream distros are going to fragment from the upstream. Why take that chance? > > So what problem are you trying to solve here ? I just don't get it. I'm not trying to be flip here, but the problem and solution seems rather simple to me. I see a lot of good that can come from having a reference distro, and a lot of bad that can come from not having one. I'm curious - what about a reference distribution do you not like? -JM http://www.hyperic.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
