Hi,
On 16.09.10 19:18, Jason wrote:
I think part of that was the rather excessive amount of work just to
get a usable build environment to be able to do that,
Installation of SXCE or OSol and running one script was "the rather
excessive amount of work"? Even before the script for installing SFE CBE
existed, it needed only few steps to do it manually.
or in the case
of jucr, its incredible opaqueness which made doing anything with it
incredibly painful (I finally gave up myself). If you make things
hard (or take a lot more effort) for people that weren't on SWAN to do
anything, it shouldn't be surprising no one else did anything...
spec-files-extra has nothing to do with SWAN. You can ask those who were
participating on it externally for years.
Hopefully OpenIndiana is able to address those issues.
Well, as I see spec-files-extra imported to Illumos, I hope they will
contribute back to it and participate on it more and more. For last
couple of years I was hearing mostly excuses from both sides. But for
SFE the excuses from non-SUN people were invalid. SUN was not
controlling it and it was purely community work. Still the most of work
was/is done by SUN employees...
Best regards,
Milan
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Calum Benson<calum.ben...@oracle.com> wrote:
On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote:
Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular
to newbies....That's one good way to make it popular .
Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to
OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer. Not many people
ever did, and of those, not everyone subsequently kept them up to date. If
OpenIndiana can find the people to port and maintain a large package library
that Sun/Oracle never could, then fair play to them!
Cheeri,
Calum.
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