[os-infrastructure] Re: [os-engineering] Closed source components

[Joe Abbate]

Hi Daryl,

Daryl Monge wrote:
> Great example,
>
> On Jun 30, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Joe Abbate wrote:
>
>> One example of community changes that Steve has mentioned is "Project 
>> D".  I wasn't in DR, but I presume it means something related to this:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_%28data_language_specification%29
>>
>> This is not SQL and though it may be "the way of the future", it may 
>> take years before we're ready to introduce it as part of the 
>> mainstream Ingres product.
>
> But I think maybe I didn't understand.  Is Project D an example of
>
>> Community editions that should never make it into the Enterprise code 
>> line should remain on a project branch in the community 
> Or at least not in the near future.......
>> edition code line and never allowed to cross-integrate into the head-rev.
>
> or is it an internal closed source experiment that should not be 
> mirrored to the public repository (like B1)?

No, it's an example of the the former, but what if the community wants D 
Language support in the Community Edition?  It cannot remain in a 
project branch.

Joe