>> I am author of pdo.c - it was programmed from zero in four >> months and I have also new pdo with recursive patching and >> new Solaris upgrade algorythm, will be nice if someone pick >> it up after me. I have no idea that it is not opened - >> remember I had special thread about how pdo works etc. But >> I do not even know who made that desicion - not to open this >> code and why it was made. May be it is too complicated? I is >> very funny to have my full comments in that thread and don't >> have code itself... > > In looking through http://opensolaris.org/os/community/install/, the > only file that looks like it might have it is the SVR4 packaging tools > source. I don't see it in there, however. > > It's good to hear that this seems to be unencumbered Sun code. > Perhaps Sarah, Dave, or Bart could help to get this code out in the > open. (I mention them because they are listed as Installation and > Packaging Community leaders and I regularly see them on opensolaris > lists. The other names don't sound familiar.) >
Well, if Vassili had been paying attention over the last year he worked on the install team, he would well know that the reason nothing beyond the packaging tools has been open-sourced from the install consolidation is that we had a long list of higher priorities that required the resources we had available (most of the work for the packaging tools was done by Stephen Lau of the OpenSolaris team, actually, because that was the only way we could get it done at that time). Many of those are finally wrapping up, we've obtained some more people to work on things, and we're considering what we will do about open-sourcing additional code while trying to deliver other priorities as well; I hope we'll have some additional things show up pretty soon. Dave
