[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [desktop-discuss] SFE binary packages for OpenSolaris]

[Alan Coopersmith]

Darren Kenny wrote:
> Personally, I would have liked the IPS system to have also included a new
> OpenSolaris build system too, like Debian packages do, which would be used for
> *all* packages, but that's not how it's done right now, and I don't know if
> there is any intention on going that way unless the community really push for it...

You probably wouldn't like it if it did though, since being designed by people
with most of their experience in ON, it would be designed to match the way 
they build - build the entire source tree, install into a proto area, and then
build packages from that using fixed lists of files in each package - and not
the way JDS or RPM build.

The problem with one build system remains that we don't have one build style
all the parts of OpenSolaris agree on.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering