On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:38 PM, john kroll<jek0...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Sorry sir my comment was not specific to GCC 4.4 > > > OpenSolaris and Debian being, as examples, tending > towards opposite ends of that spectrum. > > At the end of the day, this is a lot of hot air over little.
I simply meant that Debian's philosophy is that absolutely nothing _not_ free (read: not opensourced) gets intot the distro. That's not the case with Sun's OpenSolaris (tm) distro, nor of probably any distro currently. One compiler is free; the other, required currently for building the base bits, is not. Debian is absolute in the extreme of 100% free stuff only. OpenSolaris in most, if not all forms, is not built with, nor contains, 100% free. Today, anyway. And if other distro's have solved for /closed then I'll apologize in advance. By the way, there are two ways to integrate into "OpenSolaris" today: 1) Port and go through ARC, then integrate manually but through the Sun process (sponsorship, etc), then end; 2) Port and go through /contrib, then end; The former gets you into probably most distros. The later, probably just Sun's -- I don't know if any other distros currently (or plan to) take on pkg. And then there's Nexenta :) GCC doesn't _have to_ go through ARC if it targets /contrib. I'm not endorsing or suggesting that's a good thing, but that's the reality I see. And no, OpenSolaris.Org won't migrate to OpenSolaris.net. There's so much more to the community than just Sun's distro -- it won't end when Solaris.Next ships in a more official capacity.. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
