[indiana-discuss] "Where do I download OpenSolaris" Ian Murdock

[elw at stderr.org]

> For those who say end-users shouldn't be changing PHP/Apache/etc..... 
> I agree with that, but experience in the field has shown me that it's 
> fairly common.

I actually have to do this very thing on a fairly frequent basis - 
rebuilding bits of the PHP/Apache ecosystem.  I am not an end-user by any 
stretch of the imagination, unless "end user" here means "outside sun".

It is currently not very much fun.  We disable the Sun versions and have 
local infrastructure to take virgin source and generate semi-sane packages 
(that live in a different $INSTALLDIR, buried in /opt...)

It'd be great if it were more possible for me to rebuild individual 
components (like a new PHP version that Sun doesn't want to deploy yet 
because of interface stability...), as well as rebuilding the chunks that 
live on top in order to have everything working properly.

Any of you happen to be in the chain of folks that could get PHP built for 
solaris with postgresql support included directly in it?  That was a 
longstanding problem for years - these days I expect that it ought to be 
getting fixed....

--e