[indiana-discuss] Indiana Problem Statement

[Glenn Lagasse]

Hi Shawn,

* Shawn Walker (binarycrusader at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 29/06/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> >Doug Scott wrote:
> >> Back to the Java front. I think that it would be a mistake not to
> >> include the jre in the base, though the jre size on Solaris does concern
> >> me.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
> >> doug at prae> du -hs /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0/jre
> >> 124M /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0/jre
> >
> >That's certainly a large compromise if we did want to include it.
> 
> A good compromise would be a way to make it so the browser could tie
> into the packaging system / repository to install missing plugins for
> java, flash, etc. on demand.
> 
> If it's integrated, that will be far less painful.
> 
> The user should not have to search in package manager ala synaptic, etc.

Why not?  They have to on any other opensource operating
system/distribution.  Sun java is not installed by default on ubuntu,
debian, fedora, rhel, or suse (I think, novell might ship it by
default now).  The only distribution I know that does include it by
default is slackware.  Windows doesn't (naturally) though MacOS X does
include it (well at least some versions of Java).

As long as we make it simple and intuitive to add via the network, I
don't consider this a pain point.

If we can work out how to include it by default given size constraints,
then fine but I don't think we *have* to.

Cheers,

Glenn