Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I myself would prefer open source software based on libraries already included in Solaris (like OpenSSL) - something I can't get with Blastwave. This is something that currently does not fit the ON OSS model from Sun. Unless we find a way that Sun

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Philip, Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 11:44:11 PM, you wrote: PB On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: PB [really, it should give the patches to openssl.org. but barring that, PB it would be nice to see a patch set just posted somewhere, like PB

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Chris, Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 11:28:14 PM, you wrote: CR On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Dave Miner wrote: Not being a Debian user, I won't try to compare. I guess your experience with Solaris patches is more from the user end, whereas I'm looking at it from the creator/maintainer end;

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-20 Thread Chris Ricker
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote: CR It's not so pretty from the user side either, though I suppose that's more CR a matter of taste. There are things about Solaris I prefer over Linux, but CR the package / patch duality versus the everything-is-a-package approach of CR Debian or

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Philip, Monday, April 17, 2006, 7:19:44 PM, you wrote: PB On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:35:52AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: Saturday, April 15, 2006, 2:27:45 AM, PB writes... PB Basically, blastwave packages are set up to be binary distributions, not PB developer distributions. PB

Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-18 Thread ken mays
What many people forget is about the historical trend of the software development during the last five to support the latest open source software initiatives and challenges. Take for example: http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/ versus http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/current/ This is

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-15 Thread Bill Rushmore
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Bill, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:28:32 PM, you wrote: BR I say this as someone who has no vested interest in Blastwave, BR Sunfreeware, or the companion CD but I still don't see the point, the BR community already has a more than one project

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello James, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 2:06:40 PM, you wrote: JC Hugh McIntyre writes: JC That's also what Debian does. That fixes the dependency problem, but JC doesn't fix the path problem. JC The path problem for libraries is that if one installs as JC /opt/csw/lib/libfoo.so.1 JC and

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Darren, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 4:46:17 PM, you wrote: DJM Eric Boutilier wrote: Hmm, Sun service would not like it (to put it mildly), but other than that it sounds worth considering if you ask me. So James, correct me if I'm wrong... the following is a sample future scenario

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Dennis, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 9:15:20 PM, you wrote: I blatantly disagree with the creation of yet another separate project that completely replaces services and processes that already exist ... Where, then, would be the right place to discuss the sorts of issues that

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Dennis, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:59:15 PM, you wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: If Sun Microsystems Inc. would like to begin from scratch with a complete new project then there is little that can be done right? Sun has been producing the companion CD for longer than blastwave has

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Philip, Saturday, April 15, 2006, 2:27:45 AM, you wrote: PB On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 02:13:11AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello James, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 2:06:40 PM, you wrote: JC Hugh McIntyre writes: JC That's also what Debian does. That fixes the dependency