Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Anup Sekhar wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Jim Walker wrote:
>>
>>> Huie-Ying Lee wrote:
>>>>> *usr/src/lib/pyopenssl/pyOpenSSL.txt
>>>>> - where did this file come from?
>>>>>
>>>> The pyOpenSSL.txt was downloaded from http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net.
>>>>> - it appears to be from:
>>>>> pyOpenSSL-0.8/doc/pyOpenSSL.tex
>>>>> - pyOpenSSL.txt should be removed and
>>>>> generated during the build. It needs to be insync
>>>>> with the current tarball.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I tried to generate it from the doc directory extracted from the 
>>>> tarball, but failed to do that, because there is no "latex" command 
>>>> on Solaris.
>>>> I asked some co-workers and nobody know about it.
>>>> Do you know if the "latex" command is available on Solaris ?
>>> Maybe you need to port latex too. It sounds like you are
>>> dependent on it.
> 
> The code isn't the docs just happen to be in tex format.
> 
>> What does all this have to do with "code review?" Porting LaTeX is out 
>> of the scope for this project. We are trying to do the right thing here 
>> by trying to integrate a highly useful FOSS piece into OpenSolaris. 
>> Piling on requirements like these are only going to delay or stop the 
>> project altogether. Are you sure that's what want?
> 
> I'm 100% with Anup here.  There is no chance what so ever that this 
> group will port latex just beause the pyOpenSSL docs are in tex format.
> 
> If the SFW C-Team requires this I will go as high up the management 
> chain as I need to to get it overruled.  It might sound like I'm being 
> arrogant and heavy handed and yes I am pyOpenSSL is far too important to 
> many GNOME desktop apps that are important to OpenSolaris and it is used 
> by IPS.
> 
> LaTeX/TeX is a HUGE bit of software that is highly complex - yes I'd 
> love to see it in the IPS repo but requiring it as part of pyOpenSSL and 
> worse yet using it as part of an SFW build is insanity.
> 

I don't make the rules, and I am done with this review.
(I need a break from doing code reviews anyway :)

The cteam can take it from here.

Huie-Ying,

Thanks for addressing the other issues. I have no other
comments. Good job!

Cheers,
Jim

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