> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, UNIX admin wrote: > > >> But of course you've read the text provided with > the > >> hyperlink that > >> states the dependencies eh? ;-) > > > > Of course. I am a very firm believer in reading the > documentation. In > > fact, that's the very first thing I do. > > > > But truth be told, it is simply unprofessional to > do what Steve > > Christensen has done with Sunfreeware, and whether > it's > > free/gratis/whatever or not is no excuse in my > eyes. At best, it's > > amateur work, and that's saying it very politely. > > You are certainly welcome to your opinion, but I see > nothing > unprofessional in supplying sources. Supplying the > source code is > something that not everyone seems to do...something > to think about. > > -- > > Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
IMO, it would be great to have something with the scope of blastwave (csw), but with an infrastructure something more like bsd ports or SFE, except that binary packages (and not _just_ IPS please, not everyone is there yet, even if they are running something newer than Solaris 8!) in-sync with the code and build recipes would also be available. BSD ports mostly works well on the Mac, for example. OTOH, I must be doing something wrong, 'cause I've never been able to build SFE stuff... Main thing I want, that nobody's infrastructure seems to be good at delivering, is pre-built binaries but with matching source and build recipes available. This matches my usage model (which I suspect fits a lot of other people), namely 90%+ just wanting to use something, with occasions where there's some bug I want to fix and test without having formal membership in someone's project or a dedicated system, but with someone I could pass the fix to so it would find its way upstream...and minimal further hassles, provided I documented what and why I did what I did. Maybe I want the results of a well-structured process, but a lot less of the bovine excrement. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
