All, First I wanted to say that I have received good feedback on the draft proposal: (1) dropping the fmri form of a package will probably be a good idea in the name of simplicity as well as (2) changing repositories to support either sparc or x86 only and not 32bit/64bit variants are chief among them. I am certain that there will be yet more changes to the proposal.
With the exception of a few, I am a little perplexed at lack of participation on the lists. We need to come together and decide on a packaging system that benefits everyone. I have spoken with several from Sun and the community who support the OPM (with some modifications to the proposal of course), and have heard good things from general users I have spoken with on #opensolaris, however those on this list have largely remained quiet. Why is this? Essentially, if we do not make a community decision to make things better ourselves, then we will have to settle for a political one which as we all know very often has little or no technical merit. Steve > Everyone, > > I have completed the draft proposal for the Open Package Management > project (previously known as ports). This document details the research > and analysis that has been done to augment Solaris packaging to provide > a more consistent feel towards handling third party software. I would > like to see this document used as a basis for the delivery method for > this new project. > > You can view it here: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhbvzvv7_0f9prct > > Please comment - there is a lot to talk about :) > > Steve
