[indiana-discuss] current state of affairs..

[Sriram Natarajan]

Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>> My main point of this email is - inspite of having great kernel and 
>> cool features within OpenSolaris, if we don't ship the latest and 
>> stable open source tools, engineers can't use OSOL as their primary 
>> dev workstation..
>
> Building a tested and support operating system, by necessity, means 
> freezing the versions of software contained within it.  It is not 
> practical to expect the latest versions of open source software, 
> especially with projects that move very quickly, to always be available.
>
> I would also note that:
>
> * the necessary resources are not currently available to update 
> software as frequently as you suggest
Shawn
  I do not expect that we ship a version that is released only 3 months 
before the release. The version that we ship was released on Dec'2007.  
I just needed some of the features of 1.5.x - 
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectNewsList

 I am sure, there will other components lying down there (with yet again 
same excuse - lack of resource). Do you think, Ubuntu folks have 
thousands of developers just doing version updates. I don't know for 
sure but this is definitely a solved problem. We just don't know how to 
solve it.

- Sriram