[oi-dev] SFE developer for OpenIndiana

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

On 21.01.2013 16:23, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> On 01/21/2013 03:20 PM, Luca De Pandis wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> i would like to become a SFE software porter for the OI community.
>>
>> I've already downloaded the SFE trunk from the svn repository, 
>> installed
>> Sun Studio 12.1 and CBE.
>
> I know I might be slightly off-topic here, but isn't OI going to 
> switch
> to GCC for building? Studio is proprietary and being at the mercy of
> Oracle and their wild licensing policies doesn't seem like a good 
> idea
> to me. Illumos has made the switch go GCC-4.4.4 almost half a year 
> ago
> and it is in the IO repos (pkg:/developer/illumos-gcc).
>
> Cheers,

that is irrelevant for SFE. SFE is using own CBE and because it shares 
specs with Solaris community, it is still Studio based mostly.

Best regards,

Milan