My mistake. This is not one of the required porting packages for the  
project. Too many packages in the mill.

Bruce

On May 13, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Bruce Rothermal wrote:

> So before you vote this down. How long will it take to get this bug  
> fixed. This package (vuze) is not being ported because it is an  
> interesting piece of software. It is a required mandatory package  
> needed for a project in the HPC Deployer project.
>
> Bruce
>
>
> On May 13, 2009, at 8:41 AM, George Drapeau wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Eric Reid - Sun ISV Engineering wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - the app's BitTorrent upload and download capabilities worked  
>>>>> fine; it's good enough to use as a BitTorrent client, but will  
>>>>> be missing some functionality (no rendering of the Vuze HD  
>>>>> Network page since no HTML browser support since it's not in SWT  
>>>>> on OpenSolaris as far as I could tell).
>>>> If main functionality is there but satelite functionality isnt  
>>>> working, it's good enough for /contrib. But not for other repos.
>>> Gosh, I have a HUGE problem with this. IPS packages enforce  
>>> dependencies at install time, as do all mature packaging systems  
>>> today. The fact that SJ has a bug, IMHO, is *not* reason enough to  
>>> claim these IPS packages in /contrib are "good enough". All the  
>>> caveats in the world will not head off potential installation  
>>> experience headaches, which will then turn people off from  
>>> OpenSolaris.
>> You've changed my mind; rather, I should have been more specific in  
>> my last message about my opinion on the Vuze / Azureus package.  I  
>> would call Vuze an alpha or beta level release because it works but  
>> lacks known functionality; I can live with that, if the package  
>> submitter were to rapidly improve the package.  But this whole lack- 
>> of-dependency-checking thing is a show-stopper for packages  
>> submitted via Juicer.  I apologize; I completely ignored that in my  
>> most recent message, even though I mentioned it my early comments  
>> on the package.
>>
>> Dependencies not working: sounds like a no-go to me for any package  
>> submission that specifies package dependencies.  Seems like that  
>> should get fixed, then every package submitted that specified  
>> dependencies can be re-checked easily, then they can all go  
>> through.  But they shouldn't go through now.
>>
>> Separately, Amanda made a good point about the other Vuze package  
>> bug, not correctly specifying the path to swt.jar.  That does need  
>> to be fixed before this package is ready to be released.
>>>
>>> I could not in good conscience give a +1 to such packages.
>>>
>>> I would be curious to hear the opinions of the other SW-Porters  
>>> Core Contributors.
>>>
>> Me, too.  I think it's straightforward enough: why allow packages  
>> to be released when we know they're missing the dependency stuff?   
>> The bug will get fixed at some point, then we'll just have more  
>> packages ready to be published, but not until then.  Do the other  
>> Core Contributors agree?
>>
>>  G.
>>
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