[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Laurent Blume]

Shawn Walker a écrit :
> Which means nothing :)
> 
> The on-disk format should be in the 2010.02 release.

Cool, that's something I had missed, thanks for the heads up :-)

> I don't think it is much of a stretch to place files into a repository 
> in a native package format where they are easily updated.  The 
> significant advantage for the ISVs are access control and significantly 
> less bandwidth usage than a traditional distribution model.

Historically, Solaris has been used in many secure environments. I've 
been working in one of those. With no network access and restrictions on 
the media you can use there, yes, it becomes a pain. It's simply 
impossible to install a repository in each secure network: the cost 
would be too high.
I know it's a particular case, and maybe Sun doesn't care about those 
customers anymore (their salespeople sure didn't look like they cared 
much...). But its' a case where IPS, right now, fails.

> Oh ye of little faith ;)

Well, actually, I don't really think it matters that much. The success, 
or not, of IPS, isn't the same as the success or not of OpenSolaris.com, 
or the OpenSolaris distributions. That something I disagree with Ben :-)

Laurent