On Tue, 8 May 2007, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >>> >>> I'm not so thrilled by the on going exercise of everybody trying to >>> "flesh out" >>> the Solaris Product with additional utilities they feel add a lot of >>> value, but are >>> ultimately maintained elsewhere. >> >> Wait though. There are lots of OpenSolaris contributors who are focused >> on add-on utilities and doing it here, not elsewhere. SFW/CCD for one and >> pkgbuild/SFE for another... > > And I'm not talking about add-on utilities for which the associated > OpenSolaris contributors are the ultimate maintainers. > (Although I'm not sure I agree with the examples.)
Please explain. A discussion about examples such as these would probably be useful here. > The key attribute isn't "add-on utility". > Its even a bad example on my part because it could easily be a library or > other component. The key attribute is "ultimately maintained elsewhere". Agreed, but I think there are actually two key things. Scope is the other one, and you said "everybody". No doubt you were using it rhetorically, but the thing is, I don't think it's even close to everybody. Eric
