[oi-dev] SFE developer for OpenIndiana

Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov.ml at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 17:53:37 UTC 2013


On 01/21/2013 06:47 PM, Milan Jurik wrote:
> 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.

Sure thing, whatever best works for you guys.

Cheers,
--
Saso




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