Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote:
> > - 100% self hosting
>
> Agree. I would go beyond this to require that builds be reproduceable,
> excepting things like ELF timestamps and signatures.
>
> This is IMHO an essential part of the OS being suitable as a base for
The list of missing files in known sice ~ 2 years. What is the current state
of these files, are they really not yet redistributable?
I know that libc is now more complete than it has been on June 14th 2005,
but I see no discussion about when it will be completely OSS.
There are also strange things like /usr/bin/bg that make me believe that
the bins-only have not been re-evaluated for a long time.
Even more, attempts to help with the OpenSolaris emancipation by starting
a discussion on the replacemtenr (e.g. for replacing the non-free "pax"
by star) are blocked.
Is there any chance that this will change?
> continued development of itself; a developer should be able to make
> source changes and have confidence that only those source changes are
> responsible for differences in the object code.
This is something we may discuss after the problems from above have been solved.
> > - enough parts are OpenSource to allow a port to a new platform
> > with a currently not supported CPU.
>
> While this is a highly desirable goal, I don't think we can be sure that
> this is true until someone reports a successful port.
We have the PPC port. It this port does not require any non-source parts,
we know that a minimum amount of sourcecode is out.
J?rg
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