[indiana-discuss] Indiana Problem Statement

[Darren Kenny]

Hi Alberto,

While it may not be there for CORE OS functions, it may be there for UI's
related to them, for example, for the Visual Panels project, which is a Java
based system configuration utility, this is to be the core configuration
direction, via a GUI, in OpenSolaris.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, the main UI
development language for admin tools has been Java, so if you omit Java you are
likely to omit any of these. The main reason for this was to avoid direct
dependencies on relatively unstable APIs in the Desktop arena (relative to the
CORE OS APIs that is).

Personally, I can understand if people don't want to include it, given the size,
but it's a way more stable platform than Python to develop with, and the
developer tools are miles ahead of Python's...

Thanks,

Darren.


Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 
> 
> 2007/7/2, Doug Scott <dougs at truemail.co.th <mailto:dougs at truemail.co.th>>:
> 
>     > and why do we care?
>     >
>     > we're pushing /opensolaris/, NOT java... java's sun's other product.
> 
>     Because Java Rock's!. The only problem has been in the past that Sun
>     write some of the worst Java apps.
>     Have you un-installed it of the systems you use?
> 
> 
> Let's put Blender on the core distribution, because everyone knows that
> Blender rocks. And Haskell too!
> 
> Now, seriously, why do we need Java on the core OS? Perl and Python make
> sense, since both are used for systems stuff, already, but Java? Do we
> need it in the core essentials?
> 
> -- 
> Un saludo,
> Alberto Ruiz
> 
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