LSARC 2008/741 Exuberant CTags Packaging for OpenSolaris

[Brian Utterback]

Another issue has come up. The OpenGrok case (pending, not yet 
submitted) has a dependency on Exuberant CTags. In fact, this 
dependency is what has delayed the filing. In any case, the desire is 
to have OpenGrok integrate in the SFW consolidation for inclusion in 
OpenSolaris. However, OpenGrok requires Exuberant CTags to run work. 
Since this case proposes to integrate Exuberant CTags into the DevPro 
consolidation, this leaves us with a quandary.

One possibility is to deliver OpenGrok into DevPro. The OpenGrok team 
wants to deliver to OpenSolaris, I don't know how the DevPro people 
feel about this. Another is to deliver Exuberant CTags into SFW. I 
suspect that the DevPro people will still want it in DevPro because of 
the support of prior Solaris versions and other platforms. And the 
last possibility is to deliver a private copy of Exuberant CTags with 
OpenGrok, suitably disguised to prevent users from finding it.

Is there a precedent for this situation? Any idea on the best course 
of action?

-- 
blu

"Murderous organizations have increased in size and scope; they are
more daring, they are served by the most terrible weapons offered by
modern science, and the world is nowadays threatened by new forces
which, if recklessly unchained, may some day wreck universal
destruction."  - Arthur Griffith, 1898
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Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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