From ron.kleinman at sun.com  Thu Nov  9 13:11:25 2006
From: ron.kleinman at sun.com (Ron Kleinman)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:11:25 PST
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] Project Proposal - OpenSolaris Migration Tools
Message-ID: <20335866.1163106715905.JavaMail.Twebapp@oss-app2>

I propose creation of an OpenSolaris Migration Tools project for the Immigrants Community.

The goal of this project is to provide a central location for a growing source code repository of generic tools and associated documentation, designed to ease / automate the various tasks involved in porting applications and scripts from a variety of other Unixes (Unixii?) to OpenSolaris.


I am seeking seconds for the proposal and an endorsement from the leaders of the Immigrants Community, as this project seems fully in keeping with the community  charter. Initially all we'd need is a project space, assuming project members could share the existing list.

One expected submittal for early collaboration is a Java based tool that uses a defined "before / after" ASCII text file (specific to either HP-UX or AIX), to match on any "before" string in a submitted ASCII C/C++ file and convert it to the "after" string, thereby reducing the effort to port an alternative Unix application to OpenSolaris.  Note in this case, the proceedure could be made reversible by simply switching the before and after strings.

One set of additional submittals / development would likely  be centered around providing emulation library modules for such things as "longtostring()" functions which incoming "immigrant" applications may require. 

Ron Kleinman
Sun Microsystems
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