On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:50:42PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > It would be interesting to empirically determine which libraries are > most core/key, and use that as a starting point. What I'm thinking is to > come up with a list from each of the major players. The list being those > FOSS libraries deemed lacking/absent in Nevada; and the players being > the 5 popular, active FOSS distros/ports: BeleniX, Nexenta, SchilliX, > CSW/Blastwave, and pkgbuild (JDS).
While an attempt to construct and analyse the library dependency graph makes a lot of sense, I don't quite understand how you selected these five bases for that analysis. Nexenta has its own software stack tied to Ubuntu's; I have yet to hear that they're in any way interested in diverging from that even if a common library stack were available. Certainly doing so would hinder their ability to track Ubuntu. BeleniX and SchilliX seem like logical consumers of this stack, as do Blastwave, Sunfreeware, and the Companion to the extent that either support for old Solaris releases is dropped and/or the system library dependency problem can be addressed. And I can't see any relation to JDS at all, unless you're suggesting that JDS be removed from the WOS and thus freed to depend on arbitrary components. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
