Ben Couldrey wrote: > Many software developers (Sun included) distribute their software not > as a tarballs or ISOs and not in IPS or SysV format, but as custom > installer files (.bin, .sh etc). Getting these publishers to > standardise on IPS or some other arbitrary distribution format is like > getting us all to use the same shell. > > My opinion is that these publishers will release their software in a > format that is essentially the end result of one of their development > workflows, and in a format that works the best for them.
And I find it very likely that administrators and users will demand that it be packaged in a native format so that they can use the significant number of administration tools that will be available to manage software on their OpenSolaris system. I suppose it all depends on how important their customer's business is to them. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
