[OpenIndiana-discuss] Ext 2 Support

[Thomas Wagner]

Hi Bob,

thanks, you got the point. 
It is using old distro packages on a new distro.

So to me, it is: 
Users should consider contribution to the projects.

OI and SFE both can only get better by occational and/or continuos 
help from the smart users.

So the question is: How to do public relations and make
OI and SFE visible to possible contributors.
That should include to make visible that this is not a
swinning pool with sharks in it, instead a community of
nice and helpful people.

Regards,
Thomas

PS: No one ever asked nor offered contribution for the ext2 packages to be in the currenct SFE repos...
...invest in packages users ask for looks like most sensible.

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:23:48AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>  On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Thomas Wagner wrote:
> 
> > Hi Gordon,
> >
> > could you be more specific in terms of what breaks?
> > SFE packages should not have more limitations then using
> > either the OI stack or the SFE stack (fuse, libfuse, ext2).
> 
>  I assume that the problem with "old SFE packages" is related to 
>  incompatiblity with OI Hipster (vs -dev).  It is not an issue with the SFE 
>  packages you maintain.
> 
>  Bob