Why should sun have consulted the community about their business decisions?. Opensolaris was their distro, their product, the code is in their repository. The most we could have done is clone the opensolaris respository outside sun's firewalls and prevent the relevant changes to avoid deleting the srv4 stuff.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> > I still use SVR4 packages that get released from Blastwave and those work >> > for the most part. To hell with that issue at the moment. >> >> Then your distro will be forked from the Oracle released sources and you'll >> have created an extra hurdle for yourself to jump in recreating SVR4 package >> prototypes since those are no longer present in the ON & X gates, and will >> be removed from more of the source gates as more consolidations transition. > > The problem is that Sun/Oracle did already fork and changed things without > asking the comunity whether this to be accepted by the community. These > changes > cause incompatibilities with Solaris 10 and SXCE. There is a big chance that > going a different path than Sun/Oracle may reduce the effort at users side. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
