<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Its hard for me to comprehend how this is not available with something<br>> so mature as solaris.
<br>You're not alone. To be clear though, this is more a SUN problem, then a<br>BW one. Without BW, the situation would be magnitudes worse, so it's<br>good to see that we've been making a real difference here.
</blockquote><div><br>You have to understand that historically most people bought their applications, and used proprietary development tools. (Short of a small list of GNU tools that were fairly commonly used, there really wasn't much call for open source repositories... )
<br><br>It's just been relatively recently that there has been an explosion of open source application development. (As oppose to cli commands/tools). that have made this a neccessity. (Fairly recently would be within the past 10 years or so).
<br><br>-Brian<br></div><br></div><br>