[companion-discuss] Re: open code for fundamental libraries

[lianep at eng.sun.com]

Eric Boutilier writes:
> My initial thought is that not all the items seem to fall in the 
> cateogory of common source repository requirements; some seem to be 
> build-system requirements. (On the other hand, the problem could be that 
> my notion of what a source repository is is way too narrow...)

That's a fair comment about the terminology.  But...

A source repository with absolutely no build infrastructure is probably
best implemented as a web page with links to the main source download 
sites for lots of OSS components.  That way, you know the components are
always up to date. :)

If the primary problem worth tackling as a community is to make 
sure that the main trunks of the OSS components can build on 
OpenSolaris-based distributions, I think we'd probably be better off 
eschewing the overhead of a source repository and just creating a wiki
which had a list of OSS software and interesting versions with instructions
on how to compile.  (Bart suggested this -- it wasn't my idea.)  If we 
can't reach a consensus on a useful build environment, pursuing such a 
wiki would be a great idea.

It just seems like a common build environment would even more helpful as
it has the benefit of turning those manual instructions into a set of 
makefiles so the instructions can be reduced to "make install" (or a
more appropriate target) for each component rather than differing for 
many of them.

liane
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