[gnu-sol-discuss] Re: [companion-discuss] Re: [sfwnv] Open Source software and OpenSolaris. What is the deal?

[Josh Berkus]

Brian,

There's another reason to think of making Blastwave an "official" tool. 
There's a lot of OSS stuff officially integrated into Solaris and not in 
SFW ... Gnome, PostgreSQL, libxml, etc, etc.  However, due to our Q/A and 
integration process, often these are *not* the very latest versions.  While 
that's fine with most users, some want cutting-edge more than they want 
stability. I'd love to come up with a way to allow users to get the 
latest-cutting-edge stuff which nevertheless makes it possible for them to 
transition easily to the "stable" builds once those things are officially 
supported.

I think if we work out path issues, Blastwave could be a way to do this.  
Right now BW puts stuff in different locations than SFW or Companion does, 
but it seems like we could fix that, yes?

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Josh Berkus
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Sun Microsystems
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