So far, three systems have come to pass which are impressive for auto porting code to Solaris:
1. Portaris (Gentoo's Portage for Solaris) 2. Nexenta's Autobuilder 3. Blastwave's SVN/builder (maintained by Cory) There are the others done by NetBSD, OpenPKG, and many other people porting open software to Solaris. Gentoo has one of the most impressive GUI type systems which tells you the package versions that have passed within a certain app/lib across multiple platforms. Debian's buildd system is impressive in that you can see the most current packages being compiled and if they were successful or not. Very simple, yet stability and access to the site has varied over the years. A key thing to think about for developer support. As for the Companion DVD, a lot of software on the Nevada builds are more updated so just keeping the DVD updated is good. Mainly, what software you'd find within a Suse 10 DVD. You'd want to basically load up Solaris and Suse and be able to compile and run applications within both enviroments without too many issues. Reality is this takes a little time and effort to get apps ported to Solaris and having to deal with dependancies of other libs. Time consuming for most maintainers if those libs are not available (or difficult to port because of OS implementation oddities). Other than that, the high level processes and procedures on how all of this work is going to get done... Ken Mays Earthlink, Inc. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
