Sriram Natarajan wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
My main point of this email is - inspite of having great kernel and
cool features within OpenSolaris, if we don't ship the latest and
stable open source tools, engineers can't use OSOL as their primary
dev workstation..
Building a tested and support operating system, by necessity, means
freezing the versions of software contained within it. It is not
practical to expect the latest versions of open source software,
especially with projects that move very quickly, to always be available.
I would also note that:
* the necessary resources are not currently available to update
software as frequently as you suggest
Shawn
I do not expect that we ship a version that is released only 3 months
before the release. The version that we ship was released on Dec'2007.
I just needed some of the features of 1.5.x -
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectNewsList
...and that doesn't nullify my statement about resources.
I am sure, there will other components lying down there (with yet again
same excuse - lack of resource). Do you think, Ubuntu folks have
thousands of developers just doing version updates. I don't know for
sure but this is definitely a solved problem. We just don't know how to
solve it.
While not thousands, I know they have at least have hundreds of
community contributors maintaining packages indirectly via the Debian
project. Remember that Ubuntu benefits greatly from being able to
repackage the work of others.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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