[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:29:50PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:30:36PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>   
>>> Ceri Davies wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:10:36PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Ceri Davies wrote:
>>>>>             
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:40:56PM -0700, Dan Roberts wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm throwing an oar in here, not to rag on Indiana/OpenSolaris,
>>>>>> but because feedback on how we function has been requested.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   [...]
>>>>>> Not to mention that with the release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 there will
>>>>>> be a large number of folk who will want to check out the code
>>>>>> repository; when they're unable to do so, they will be confused and
>>>>>> probably annoyed.  Pushing a release this hard to try and win minds from
>>>>>> what I call the GPL zealot set isn't doing to fly when they can't even
>>>>>> get the code.  Just watch slashdot when they find out.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>                   
>>>>>   Which code repository are you referring to ?
>>>>>             
>>>> The one where Indiana development is being done.
>>>>         
>>>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/
>>>   hg.opensolaris.org/hg/caiman
>>> 
>>>   However I agree, these should find a mention in the Caiman front page.
>>>     
>> 
>> That looks an awful lot like just an installer.  I'm talking about a
>> repository where one can check out the source for the bits on the CD.
>> I'm pretty sure that there isn't one.
>>   
> 
>   There is not one but several. Indiana pulls it's packages from a bunch
>   of consolidations. There is no single repository that you can look into:
> 
>   ON
>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/
>   hg clone ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate
> 
>   SFW
>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sfw/
> 
>   FOX
>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/fox/fox-gate/
>   hg clone ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/fox/fox-gate
> 
>   JDS
>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/
>   svn co svn+ssh://anon at svn dot opensolaris dot 
> org/svn/jds/spec-files/trunk spec-files
> 
>   IPS
>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/
>   hg clone ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/pkg/gate
> 
>   G11N
>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/nv-g11n/
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nv-g11n/documents/repository/
> 
>   Network Storage
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nws/
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nws/nws-src-20080414.tar.bz2
> 
>   Docs
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/docs/
>   http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/downloads/current/
> 
>   Man pages
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/manpages/
>   http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current
> 
>   Developer Product Tools
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/devpro/
> 
>   Caiman (Umbrella Project, includes installer, distro constructor etc.)
>   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/
>   hg clone ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/caiman
> 
>   There are a few bits and pieces in the form of redistributable binaries
>   for which no source is available yet.

My point being that this is going to go down like a fart in a lift.

Thanks for the pointers though.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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