[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Stephen Lau]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> The primary issue with that, is that it really isn't practical to have
> a single tarball of all the source.
>
> OpenSolaris is comprised of numerous consolidations that each use
> their own software build and management mechanisms.
>
> The tarball would be gigabytes or larger in size and I'm not even sure
> how you would organise it.
>
> While many of the larger components do have well-documented build
> systems, etc. I don't think it is practical, at this time, to expect
> something unified.
>
> With that said, one of the goals of the Distribution Community Group
> is to see that as much documentation as possible is provided so that
> others can build their own OpenSolaris distributions. So, you can look
> forward to this documentation eventually being available. However, we
> need volunteers to help produce it! I would invite anyone interested
> to join the distribution-discuss mailing list and participate in the
> Distribution CG.
>
> Cheers,
>   

I don't think it's that unreasonable (yes, realising you said 
"practical" not "reasonable")... many other Linux distros do this (via 
shipping SRPMS, etc. on a DVD or at least making them available).

cheers,
steve

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