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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?
From:       Calum Benson <calum.benson () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-09-17 13:43:09
Message-ID: 36118C35-BE81-4147-B06D-C8E6C48C1A0A () oracle ! com
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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.

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