[indiana-discuss] what's next?

[Shawn Walker]

On 12/06/07, Daniel Griffith <mechadaniel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 3. Package system. This isn't just pkg-get or apt-get on top of #2,
> > but just as importantly, the framework and tools for community members
> > to contribute packages. This is where I expect to have the bulk of
> > community involvement. Someone finds their favorite tool isn't packaged,
> > so they package it. That's certainly how Debian/Ubuntu have worked.
>
> That's the bit that worries me at the moment, I get the vibe that the
> people here who have used Linux have only used Debian or Redhat, these
> are distributions stuck with Package systems that were state of the
> art in the last century, but are showing their age.

Those systems "stuck in the last age" are also the ones that most
people are familiar with. They are also the ones used by the majority
of the installed Linux user base, both in the enterprise and personal
sector. There's quite a bit of rebirth going on around rpm right now
at http://rpm5.org/.

The bit that worries me with posts like this is that new projects are
automatically assumed to reinvent every wheel because its too much
like every other wheel they've ever seen. Ubuntu was wildly successful
in just taking something existing and doing it much better. I think
this project will get nowhere quickly if it ends up reinventing all
the "wheels" that we already have.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/