Eric Boutilier writes: > My initial thought is that not all the items seem to fall in the > cateogory of common source repository requirements; some seem to be > build-system requirements. (On the other hand, the problem could be that > my notion of what a source repository is is way too narrow...)
That's a fair comment about the terminology. But... A source repository with absolutely no build infrastructure is probably best implemented as a web page with links to the main source download sites for lots of OSS components. That way, you know the components are always up to date. :) If the primary problem worth tackling as a community is to make sure that the main trunks of the OSS components can build on OpenSolaris-based distributions, I think we'd probably be better off eschewing the overhead of a source repository and just creating a wiki which had a list of OSS software and interesting versions with instructions on how to compile. (Bart suggested this -- it wasn't my idea.) If we can't reach a consensus on a useful build environment, pursuing such a wiki would be a great idea. It just seems like a common build environment would even more helpful as it has the benefit of turning those manual instructions into a set of makefiles so the instructions can be reduced to "make install" (or a more appropriate target) for each component rather than differing for many of them. liane -- Liane Praza, Solaris Kernel Development liane.praza at sun.com - http://blogs.sun.com/lianep
