Re: [IBMiOSS] RFE: GNU tar for PASE

"OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/30/2016
04:50:44 PM:

From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/30/2016 04:51 PM
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] RFE: GNU tar for PASE
Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I'd prefer all open source is either provided by IBM 5733OPS or via

the

community (using OBS approach or other). In my eyes perzl.org is a
stepping stone on our IBMiOSS journey. That doesn't mean I don't

immensely

appreciate Perzl's efforts; but they do need to just be a stepping

stone

and not a destination.

I happen to agree with all of that, but I was wondering if perzl.org
is already a destination for some people. For all I know, there is an
established AIX community who views perzl.org as their canonical
repository, and they want it to live on indefinitely. And if that's
the case, then some (even in the midrange community) might consider
efforts to rebuild any already-working-on-PASE-as-is perzl packages to
be wasteful.

Perzl rpms are "already-working-on-PASE-as-is" for some definition of
"working."

We (both IBM and the community) have created a ton of scripts and hacks to
work around the problems inherent in using those packages. And we owe Mr
Perzl a great deal of gratitude for the work he has put in to his project
that we've been able to benefit from, but I think the hacks we have in
place will only carry us so far. We should always strive for better in
everything we do and I think we (again, both IBM and the community) should
not feel shackled by those limitations and we can build something better
than Perzl for IBM i.

Just putting it out there.

John Y.