[indiana-discuss] Updated Developer Preview?

[Richard Elling]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2008 10:06 AM, Aubrey Li <aubreylee at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Jan 20, 2008 3:46 PM, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> There is nothing that an updated indiana can do with respect to the
>>> problem of building ON.
>>>
>>> The first most visible problem is in the Sun Studio tools,
>>> specifically the package SUNWsprot which contains as(1). gas doesn't
>>> work to build ON, and SUNWsprot's copy of as(1) is non-redistrib. and
>>> therefore not in indiana
>>>
>>>       
>> That's really bad.
>> Will this feature be supported in the coming March release?
>>     
>
> I doubt it. Despite Jonathan Schwartz's promises over two years ago
> now that "everything Sun does will be open source" -- unknown reasons
> prevent the release of Sun Studio, even with the most basic
> redistribution rights that we already have for other OpenSolaris
> binary components.
>   

Aren't you assuming that Sun owns all of the intellectual property
in the compilers?  There is no conspiracy.
 -- richard
> For some reason, even though OpenSolaris is "married" to Sun Studio at
> this point, Sun still seems to treat them as completely separate.
>
> This doesn't make much sense to me given Studio's direct impact on OpenSolaris.
>
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