Albert White wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> HUGE thanks to Steve Lau for all the technical work, and to Bonnie >> Corwin for all the paperwork. You guys rock! > > Well done folks, this is great to get out. > > Where are we on the plan for making the patch tools available? >
The plan for making the rest of the install consolidation available is under discussion, and I don't have a timeframe available, other than the thing on the roadmap (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/) which says "after July 2006". We're terribly constrained by both resources and priorities, so it's caught in a bad squeeze. The package tools were felt to be important enough for the community that Karyn's team stepped up and did the relatively small amount of work required, but at this point they likely have higher priorities, too. Is there a particular reason that it's desirable to make the patch tool sources available soon? There hasn't been any request from the community for even redistributable binaries, so at the moment I'd have to judge the interest as very low. Dave
