> Just wanted to point out that many of these packages that we are > porting are moving much faster than we can port. [...]
> It seems to me that this is a bad model for Sun to be tightly > consolidating all these packages that we have no control over time > line, we can never keep current. Well, there are two solutions both of which should be implemented: 1. spread the load over many shoulders 2. automate building as much as possible Item 1 is more an organizing than a technical thing. I routinely build packages of FOSS stuff and certainly wouldn't mind contributing them, but I am not aware of an easy cookbook that would tell me how to build stuff and follow all that integration red tape, find sponsor, etc. By contrast, item 2 "just" needs someone to sit down and wrap up some good tools, something that pulls the config options for the previous version out of a database, runs the "configure" (or whatever) and a test suite... etc. NetBSD pkgsrc comes to mind, which is not really a packaging system (despite the name) but an automated software porting system. Obviously, if you need to handshake with the upstream people, that cannot be helped. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: vab at bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgr??e: 45 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt
