[csw-maintainers] comments on camp "wave", solaris 9 vs 10, etc

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 16.08.2010 um 17:54 schrieb Philip Brown:
> I've been catching up on the "wave" based notes of the summer camp  
> sessions @
> https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+0tu9vv7tA
> (thanks for putting that up, guys!)
>
> I wanted to mention, that I had ALREADY suggested to William (months
> ago), that, given the extreme difficulty of building the latest
> firefox under solaris, I would be fine if he did just 3.0 for solaris
> 9 (since that is already "done"), and then 3.6+, for solaris 10.
> The only remaining request there being that he recompiles 3.0 against
> the new "sun x11" based gtk, etc.

This is good. I will write up the requests resulting from the
discussion in the wave against the board soon.

> I am okay with this being a general principle also. If there is
> EXTREME effort required to get something compiled on sol9, but it's an
> easy compile on sol10, then the sol9 version can be somewhat orphaned.
> My sticking point, is that a maintainer should at least put in *some*
> effort to compile on sol9, and attempt some amount of patching. And if
> they get stuck or out of their depth, they should request help.
> "I cant get it to work" is not the same thing as "it cant be
> done"[without extreme effort]. Noone is an expert in everything. Let's
> work together!

Yes, that's the point. But: If they request help and nobody is
interested in doing the extra work it should be ok to release
the built packages.


Best regards

   -- Dago