Dennis Clarke writes: > The correct question to ask here is this : > > IF pkgadd was made open source AND the sources were easily available as a > download in the past THEN why were they made no longer *easily* available > ?
The main issue is "lack of resources." The same team that works on this is the one off working on Caiman/Indiana, and they have little spare manpower for the legacy bits. That includes producing the source drops and migrating over to an open gate. (Perhaps that issue alone is a good reason to move it all to ON; at least it'll get released that way.) I know it's not a good answer, and I wish I could offer a better one. I think the right folks to engage here would be Bonnie Corwin, Eric Ray, and possibly the OGB as well. > Regardless of what people may think, the pkgadd tool works and the SVR4 > package spec works from Solaris 8 upwards. It isn't elegant and blah blah > blah but it works. Indeed, and I'd expect that it's going to be a long time before it goes away -- if it ever does at all. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[email protected]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
