[indiana-discuss] Including Sun Studio cc with Indiana

[Stephen Lau]

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> On this regard, I would like to ask Glynn and Ian; is Indiana intended 
> to be a fully open source distribution? If so, are we going to package 
> the Sun compilers? Are we going to use it just to create the binaries? 
> Are we going to use gcc until Sun releases the compilers as open source 
> somtime in the future (I don't even know if there are any plans on 
> release the compilers though)?

I thought I had read that they were intending it to be a fully freely 
redistributable distribution; as of now, it can't be fully open source 
due to the required closed binaries.

Which means they can't bundle the Sun compilers - but they might be able 
to setup some sort of 'apt-get-ish' thing to let people download it via 
the network or something after the fact (again depending on how Sun 
feels about it)

cheers,
steve
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