[csw-users] blastwave package question

Alessio Cervellin a.cervellin at acm.org
Tue Aug 22 19:37:46 CEST 2006


Mike Patterson wrote:

> If it helps any, one of the reasons we're looking at using blastwave
> packages is precisely the same problems you're having: it just takes too
> dang long for the 10 staff members or so that we have (all of whom have
> other very real important things to do as well) to rebuild everything

...and most of times OSS on solaris can't be built in a straight-forward 
manner but it needs code patching, which is really time consuming.
and when you are fighting with software which depends on N external 
libraries, then it's the end.



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