Dennis, I'm glad you joined the conversation.
See responses below > 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. That really impressed me. Perchance, can this farm be used for building OpenSolaris/SFW packages? (I think the rules say that you have to be within two revs of bleeding edge.) > 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. Don't get me wrong. I don't in anyway mean to diminish Blastwave. In fact I am a user of Blastwave, as it simply is the best option for open source on Solaris. > 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. Can we agree that Sun has now "come in from the wilderness", and is realizing the importance of maintaining "out of box" ease of use? We should see more and more applications migrated to the SFW consolidation. The real issue is how can the community and Sun work together to further this goal, while still maintaining a "Universe" of packages, such as you are maintaining now. (Ideally the Blastwave universe would integrate into Solaris, and follow and help define the OpenSolaris SFW build standards. > We had to do "something" and we did it. Those are the kind of > people that you need. Agreed. When and if the SFW, GNU and CCD groups combine, what role do you see yourself playing? (Besides from the valuable role you currently play.) Cheers, Brian P.S. - Personally, I would like to see Blastwave take over the role CCD is playing now.
