What's the current state of affairs, for non-oracle people who wish to make
their software available in Solaris IPS format?
Far as I can tell, the idea was initially broached, in a thread starting at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03030.html
back in 2008
It even allegedly resulted in
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib
however, "This application is no longer in service."
If you guys are interested in third parties taking the IPS format seriously,
you need to give them an avenue to easily distribute in that format.
I personally have a program that I'd like to make available via IPS, but I'm
not going to spend another $40 a month to upgrade my domain hosting to
something that allows custom demons to be run, just for the privilege of
distributing something that doesnt make me any money.
To be clear: I am not looking for some service that collects open source
software, and republishes it under its own provider identity.
I am looking for something (like freecode or sourceforge) that would allow
me to publish packages, using my own "publisher" naming.
Right now, seems like the only reasonable, free way to do that at the
moment, is to toss around my software in Ye Olde SVR4 package format, still.
Have I missed something?
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