[indiana-discuss] Indiana Problem Statement

[Alberto Ruiz]

2007/7/3, Darren Kenny <Darren.Kenny at sun.com>:
>
> 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).


That's exactly the kind of answer that I was looking for, thanks Dar.

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...


I never suggested that one was better than another. It's only that Java in
the core of an OS sounded strange to me, and I wanted proper reasons, now I
have them ;-)

Thanks,
>
> Darren.
>
>
-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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