Re: [SFE-devel] SFE software on IPS repo?

[Federico B. <fed...@fb...>]

Dear Laca,

thanks for the clarification!

Best Regards,
Fede

Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 16:04 +0200, Federico Beffa wrote:
>> maybe a naive question about the ultimate goal of the SFE project:
>>
>> Is the ultimate goal to, one day, make all of the SFE packages available 
>> on an IPS repository (maybe /contrib)? Or are you "only" going to 
>> produce and maintain spec files and leave it for the user to build the 
>> software?
> 
> SFE is not really a "project" and never had an "ultimate goal".
> We had a bunch of spec files within Sun's Desktop team for packages
> that are not (or were not at the time) part of Solaris and
> since there was interest in the OpenSolaris Desktop community,
> we shared them on sourceforge.  I started to give read/write accounts
> to anyone who wanted to contribute and the number of spec files
> jumped to almost 1000.  We have since used several spec files
> for integrating packages into the Desktop consolidation or into
> /contrib.  We now have the infrastructure[1] on OpenSolaris.org
> to accept spec file contributions directly into /contrib, so
> over time, I expect the number of packages that remain in SFE
> to be low, probably limited to the encumbered packages[2] that are
> not allowed in OpenSolaris.  You are welcome to drive SFE spec
> files through the /contrib process and maintain them there.
> 
> Does this answer your question?
> 
> Laca
> 
> [1] http://jucr.opensolaris.org/
> [2] we still have to comply with sourceforge's rules
> 
> 
>