On 28 November 2011 07:33, Andrzej Szeszo <[email protected]> wrote: > I keep wondering why so many well known names from the Solaris/OpenSolaris > scene shown little interest in OpenIndiana from the very start. And I think > in most cases the reasons are non-technical.
I suspect a lot of them are very busy with day jobs. You generally don't get to be Famous (or Infamous) by being a slouch. > 2. People don't like the packaging system and the fact that it is controlled > by Oracle. Oracle 'control' the version of pkg(5) that OpenIndiana use about as much as they control illumos. The code is open; it's easy enough to fork and it's easy enough to refuse the direction Oracle may or may not be taking in the future. I also think it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that *everybody* has a problem with the packaging system. Every packaging system has good and bad points. pkg(5) is no different in this regard; by trying to replace it with dpkg/apt you're simply getting a *different* set of deficiencies. I recognise that particular individuals have experienced more than their fair share of grief with the thing, but I'm firmly opposed to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. > 3. People don't like the fact that the project was founded by non ex-Sun > person and think it is controlled by EveryCity. I don't think that's a fair assessment. Where are you getting this impression from? > So many capable people are behaving like if the project didn't exist for one > reason or another which is quite sad... :( Some of us just haven't (yet?) had time to help out with code or release engineering. There are only so many hours in the day, after all. -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
