[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Shawn Walker]

Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Shawn Walker<swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>> As for OpenSolaris distributions that don't embrace IPS; I think they will
>> be at a severe disadvantage, but I'm biased :)  I'm also of the belief that
>> third-party vendors would rather use a supported packaging system published
>> by Sun.
>>
> 
> Anything commercially supported will indeed be followed, and should
> indeed be followed, by vendors of software. Sun, however, need not be
> the only provider of such support, and IPS need not be the only such
> supported packaging system.
> 
> As you should be aware (since you're writing from an @opensolaris.org
> account), there is value in exploring alternative formats in an open
> and community friendly manner, please let us community distros do
> that.

Sure, there is plenty of value in exploring alternatives.  *However*, 
some software will only be legally available in an IPS package 
repository.  So users will be at a disadvantage.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker