Stefan Teleman wrote:
> michael schuster wrote:
>
>
>> what do our fearless leaders (Stefan, Adriaan, Luc ...) think about this?
>>
>
> Well, from what i've seen, no matter how we twist our targets around, we
> still
> end up having to supplement some of the missing puzzle pieces. Or at least
> rebuild and use a more recent version than the ones available.
>
> Like Ben was saying, osol2008.05 is missing ICU, S10U{4,5} are missing HAL,
> and
> so on.
>
> In final analysis, the actual differences between versions or releases are
> significant in terms of functionality, but rather small in terms of the
> number
> of components creating the differences (compared to the large number of
> components which aren't there in either version of S10U++, SXDE/SXCE or
> osol2008.05, and which need the FOSS versions).
>
> So far, this is manageable IMHO, for the time being -- we could add a script
> which figures out, before one starts building FOSS/KDE4, what needs to be
> built
> (FOSS-wise), and what needs to be omitted from the build, because it's
> already
> there, based on the flavor of the release.
>
> As to what will eventually go into an IPS repository, that will be either
> based
> on a well-defined OSOL release, with known components, specs and
> expectations,
> or it could even be a self-contained, KDE4-based distro. The nice thing would
> be
> to be able to accommodate both camps.
>
> --Stefan
>
>
HAL was just ported recently to S10 as far as I know.
James
