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Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?
From:       Milan Jurik <Milan.Jurik () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2010-09-17 8:26:28
Message-ID: 4C932634.5010807 () sun ! com
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  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.benson@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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