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

[lianep at eng.sun.com]

lianep at eng.sun.com writes:
> 
> 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.

(I should also note that I didn't miss Dennis' inventory of libraries 
in this thread, which is a great start down a similar path.  I wasn't 
trying to claim Bart was the only or even the first one to have this 
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.
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Liane Praza, Solaris Kernel Development
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