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

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

I agree that one build system won't fit all projects.
It seems better if the build system supports the packaging
mechanism than the other way around.

Laca

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 08:24 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.
>