[oi-dev] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, January 17, 2011 08:45 AM, Julian Wiesener wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while i still stick to my opinion that it currently would be better to
> not offer a "somewhat" stable release and concentrate on illumos
> integration, i always think people who like to do something for good
> reason, should just do it. So if there are people willing to offer a
> release and support it, there is nothing wrong in let them do it as long
> as it does not cause to much problems for those who work on
> illumos-integration, what i don't see here.
>

illumos integration +1. The other headache is packages from what I read 
into the discussions...


>
> On 01/17/11 01:00 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> Merci. I guess I would have to look elsewhere then. Nice comparing
>> postfix to a pony. I would have thought something like zimbra would be a
>> pony, not a mainstay like postfix.
>
> It is a pony since it is something many people want but is just not
> arround here and never had on osol/oi. Integrating new packages is not
> the approach here, since it is meant to be a temporary solution for osol
> users. I'm building my own postfix packages for solaris (10 and osol)
> for 5 years now and similar will be true for all possible
> oi(-temporary)-stable users that have postfix running.
> However, it is still true, that if some want to build and maintain
> postfix for oi, noone should one keep them from doing it. Instead of
> nagging that postfix is not available, you could offer to provide and
> maintain it. It is not even very difficult package, i can offer you a
> specfile if you wish to.

I already have postfix running on one OpenSolaris box. And I have 
offered to build it too. However, there was some disagreement on how it 
should be built...eg: I have mysql and pcre support enabled and I would 
also enable cdb support if tinycdb is included.


>
> BTW: I think people whos decision about an os are depending on the
> binary package availability of easy to install third party software,
> should think about their criterias.
>

/me runs OI_147 in production. Yeah, I am one of those idiots.