On Wednesday 12 April 2006 11:02 pm, Bart Smaalders wrote: > I'm both a user of blastwave and another Sun engineer > cycle-stealing on this project. From my point of view, > what I'd like to see happen with a community software > distribution for Solaris Nevada is: > > 1) large scale participation of OpenSolaris developers/users. > 2) automatic installation of required software dependencies > 3) compilation on recent enough Solaris version that modern > features can be enabled. Eg mplayer can use XVideo, SSE, > SMF, etc; where appropriate, amd64 bit versions, etc. > 4) No duplication/replacement of libraries already > present in the target Solaris release.
I think I'm completely on the same page as Bart and others that may align with these goals. Certainly there could be things that need looking at, but I would first like to know what the community needs are before trying to determine that. This seems like a good set of initial goals to have, AFAIC. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
