On 5/4/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah, and then there is this:
> http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/ (Available for Sparc and
> x86.
Two things :
Blastwave has provided free access to the build servers and tools
for years. Since day one and any developer that wants to work on
porting software to Solaris can just join up and login and have access
to the whole stack. All x86 and AMD64 and sun4u and sun4v servers are
available for free and have been that way all along. All you have to
do is conform to some standards to get the package out the door at
some point.
The Coolstack people handed all of their sources and scripts over
to Blastwave quite some time ago and the Apache that you get from
Blastwave has the same build methods as the Coolstack on the same
hardware with the same compilers etc etc etc.
Lastly, Myself and the people that jumped in to build a community
based open source software repository did what we did because Sun
would not or could not. In either case, we do have a "community"
based project that is outside of the Sun firewalls and its not run by
nor paid for by any employee of Sun. We do have some real cool
hardware from Sun and lets face it, that makes a huge difference.
Essentially we did what we had to do in order to get software
built for Solaris x86 and Sparc ( equally ) back in a time when x86
was considered a joke and Sun was said to be "dead". Here we are years
later and both are posting a strong healthy pulse. I would like to
think that the community built software at Blastwave serves a purpose
and people are happy with what we did.
We had to do "something" and we did it. Those are the kind of
people that you need.
Dennis
