Darren Reed wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Darren Reed wrote:
This would mean spinning this part of NWAM out as something
featured seperately on sourceforge.net, even if only as a leaf
of this part of the project. I'm mentioning sourceforge.net
here because we currently appear to have no capacity to do
what's required here within opensolaris.
Huh ? Do you mean because it is OpenSolaris or because of some
apparent limitation in our hosting capability ? Exactly what do you
mean by this comment ?
What I mean is that you cannot checkout any source code from the
opensolaris.org server and expect to run "./configure && make && make
install"
on any platform. If we ever want to make opensolaris code portable and
ripe for use on other platforms then we need to take steps to make it
easy for people to use it in that fashion. Hosting it on opensolaris.org
as part of opensolaris does not meet these requirements.
That has nothing what so ever to do with the opensolaris.org server
capabilities and a huge amount to do with how we have traditionally
developed Solaris.
The NWAM project is by and large targeting ON and similar to what would
happen in FreeBSD, NetBSD etc it is "integrated" in the source tree for
the core OS and Networking rather than being developed as a standalone
library/tool that uses autoconf.
Now assuming that there is a need for such a development style for what
ever reason I believe that the current capability of the opensolaris.org
site for projects is more than sufficient already. We can host an SCM
(SVN or Mercurial), projects can have a "files" download area for the
downloading the "tar file" of the source and/or binaries. There can be
a mailing list for a project.
So personally I see no need to push things over to sourceforge just
because there is a percieved need for:
$ gzip foo.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ ./configure && make && make install
as a way for people to get the bits.
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Darren J Moffat
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