On 17 Sep 2010, at 08:32, Jyri J. Virkki wrote: > Once upon a time Calum Benson wrote: >> 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! > > While technically it was "possible" to contribute external packages, > the various ways were so obscure and convoluted that one can hardly > blame anyone for not being able to go through with it.
1) Write a spec file. 2) Commit spec file and any required source patches to sourceforge svn. It really wasn't that hard. (The Source Juicer process was much the same -- upload spec file and patches to the website -- except it added a few more checks and balances because those packages were going straight into the opensolaris.org repos.) > Now that oracle has chosen to become irrelevant by abandoning all > developers A bit of an overstatement, given that Oracle has stewardship of arguably the world's most popular programming language. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
