On Feb 8, 2008 8:04 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 7:49 PM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a public design goals/specifications feature requirements > > documentation for IPS? (I know much of the initial design work was done on > > internal Sun mailing lists). > > See background reading here: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/documents/ > > See this reply by Stephen: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2007-September/000035.html > > ...and this one: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2007-September/000023.html
I would also encourage you to look at some of the docs in the source repository: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/doc/ The two that will be most interesting to you are: A requirements gathering document: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/doc/razor.txt The todo list: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/doc/TODO Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
