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

[Martin Man]

Bart Smaalders wrote:
> 
> You're missing the point.  ON developers don't build from source
> packages; they'll build from a mercurial workspace.  Why would
> anyone who's not working on ON compile it from source, and why
> should the OpenSolaris community spend the man years needed to
> support this?

Because if you want to make a bug fix for urgent security bug in a 
software two years old, it is easier to compile from source package 
while adding the .diff, than to search for the right 
gate/tag/date/whatever in SCM to obtain the sources... and you are never 
sure that you actually found the right source that was used to do this 
build...

> - Bart

just my daily bread,
Martin

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