[osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

[Joerg Schilling]

Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> My point was that a dependency algorithm was not the cause of the issue 
> >> with the blastwave packages.  It is primarily an issue of how they are 
> >> built.
> > 
> > There is no "issue" with Blastwave packages. These packages just make use from 
> > the binary compatibility grant from Sun and compile on Solaris 8 as long as 
> > there is no new feature that could be used by an application only if it is 
> > compiled on a higher Solaris release.
>
> Yes, they're great for Solaris 8 users.  However, for almost any user 
> using Solaris 10, their current dependency structure is less than desirable.

Blastwave is an open project, you are invited to collaborate...

If Sun did include more OpenSource software with Solaris  8 already, things 
would look different.

But please note that at the time Solaris 8 was created, Sun was just in a state 
where the managers believed in closed source. With Solaris 8, there are only 
thre OSS packages:

-	mkisofs

-	gzip

-	bash

A few months later, Sun opened the easy part of the Solaris source and the 
Tonic project begun....

Jörg

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