John Plocher wrote:
> In my mind, it boils down to a question of why we would require, say, the
> source for Firefox to be copied from the upstream community to a SFW source
> tree, compiled by SFW maintainers, and pushed to a repository, rather than
> having the firefox community itself create ips packages and push them out
> directly?
Because the firefox community has no interest in doing so. The only reason
Solaris or OpenSolaris builds of firefox appear on Mozilla.org is because
Sun's browser team downloads the source, builds them, and pushes them back
to the community.
I would not expect most open source communities to have any interest in
producing packages for every single distro & packaging system - there's
just too many to have it done by anyone but the people who care about
each distro.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
