lianep at eng.sun.com writes: > > 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.
(I should also note that I didn't miss Dennis' inventory of libraries in this thread, which is a great start down a similar path. I wasn't trying to claim Bart was the only or even the first one to have this 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 Praza, Solaris Kernel Development liane.praza at sun.com - http://blogs.sun.com/lianep
