[oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/ 2/12 10:47 AM, Nick Zivkovic wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>> On 09/ 2/12 07:00 AM, Adam Števko wrote:
>>>> IPS is documented in the official IPS Developer Guide located somewhere in the OpenSolaris/Oracle page. I went it through lately and I find it a good source for learning to work with IPS, in general.
>>>
>>> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+pkg/files/ipsdevguide.pdf
>>
>> FWIW, I think this sort of response is a sign of ill health for Illumos. We're still pointing to Oracle for our own documentation. And, as we should know by now, Oracle has no problems withdrawing things from public view with no warning.
> 
> This documentation can probably be rewritten on the OI/Illumos wikis.
> I will do this.

The sources to that version of the developer guide are available, so you don't
need to rewrite from scratch:
https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/oracle/pkg-gate/file/tip/doc/dev-guide

(Later versions are instead in the internal doc publishing system, so the
 sources aren't readily available under a suitable license, but then, they
 document post-175 features that aren't in the IPS version that I believe OI
 is using.)

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