[install-discuss] Install and Packaging in Mercurial

[Glenn Lagasse]

Hi Paul,

Paul Armstrong wrote:
> What're the plans to make the install and packaging source available via Mercurial?

Somewhere underneath the plans to get the rest of the Install code 
capable of being open sourced.

It's taken alot longer to get the rest of the Install code opened up 
than we thought.  Though not too surprising considering the work that 
you have to do when undertaking such an endeavor coupled with the 
resource limits we have had.  We're working on it though.

> Building workspaces via tarballs is very painful.

Could you define 'very painful' for me?  While I realize that the 
current build process for the packaging tools is highly sub-optimal and 
the term 'hack' comes to mind, it mostly just works in my experience. 
Are you running into any specific issues that we might be able to 
address short term?

Cheers,

-- 
Glenn Lagasse
Solaris Install
Sun Microsystems, Inc.