I'd be happy to offer Solaris build services, as well, should this become an issue - for as long as we can maintain our loyalty to Solaris. We are dependent now on the same set of variables to which Tom alludes. I think the inference must be: That a company wielding the resources of an Oracle could have long ago made a clear commitment to its de facto (if inherited) opensource community, if such a commitment had been its intention.
We're now all in limbo on this... And don't forget the hard work of Steve Christensen; Steve continues to offer builds of PostgreSQL - and loads of other immensely useful packages - on SunFreeware, even in the face of tenuous support from Sun. Thank You, Steve! Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lane" <[email protected]> To: "wstrzalka" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2010 9:51:27 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL on Solaris future wstrzalka <[email protected]> writes: > As I know Solaris packages were maintained by Sun but I'm not sure > about the future after recent buildfarm problems. > Does the community plans to maintain Solaris packages or it will be > Oracle dependent? When and if Bjorn stops building packages, we'll look for a replacement. Presumably somebody will be willing to do it, unless Oracle has managed to drive open source users away from Solaris completely by then. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
