Stefan Teleman wrote:
> In my mind (and this is just my thinking, please take it for what it's
> worth), i would think that these collections of bits (SAMP, GNU, etc),
> would belong to a different category of "things". These are mostly
> userland "things", they change very quickly and often in incompatible
> ways. It would probably be better and more manageable. for customers if
> these were packaged and delivered *independently* of Solaris. At least
> this way customers have a way of testing before they commit to a version
> upgrade.
Yes - that was the recommendation LSARC made after the last PostgreSQL
case, and the conclusion reached after the previous attempts to bundle
things like the directory server into the OS. Putting things into the
OS that you want to change incompatibly more often than the OS release
cycles just causes pain for Sun and pain for customers.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
