Hunspell [PSARC/2009/026 FastTrack timeout 01/23/2009]

[Suresh Chandrasekharan]

This case timed out and approved on 01/23/2009. The following feedbacks 
were received for this case.

1. Check with legal about the possibility of static linking with libreadline
2. Leverage SUNWncurses
3. Communicate with the stakeholder teams., 
firefox/thunderbird/OpenOffice to leverage the library delivered by this 
case.

Pl. remove the case from this weeks' active ones.

Thanks,
Suresh


Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Thanks much. It turns out that there was a recent communication by 
> project team with the owner of common spellcheck backend used by these 
> 3 apps and they have agree to look into replacing their private copy 
> with the delivery of this project. It was mistake from my part in 
> saying that we did not communicate.
>
> Regards,
> Suresh
>
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:29:33AM -0500, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote:
>>  
>>> Thanks much for the suggestions, no, we haven't talked with these 
>>> teams.
>>>
>>> All these products mentioned here are extremely widely used 
>>> cross-platform solutions in their respective areas, sourced from the 
>>> upstream communities to put in OpenSolaris, due to their very 
>>> cross-platform nature, I think this case makes little difference to 
>>> these products.
>>>     
>>
>> OTOH, Firefox and other apps also use SQLite3 in much the same way, and
>> though we ship SQLite3 in OpenSolaris and though Firefox still uses a
>> private version, we are coordinating so we can switch to having Firefox
>> use the SQLite3 library shipped with OpenSolaris.
>>
>> If we can coordinate this for one library, why can't we for others?
>>
>>  
>>> (This is not to escape from the project team's responsibility to 
>>> communicate with the stakeholders, but in this specific instance 
>>> stakes are extremely low for them.)
>>>     
>>
>> This is true.  It's our responsibility to: a) ask the desktop (and
>> other) teams what build configuration requirements they have for any one
>> generic component, b) inform them that we're shipping that component in
>> the OS.  It's their responsibility to then c) switch to using the system
>> version of that component instead of a private instance.  (c) might well
>> take a long time to happen.
>>
>> Nico
>>   
>