[indiana-discuss] Plans for release

[Dennis Clarke]

> That's not quite correct. SXDE went away because we wanted to focus on a
> single binary distribution (though SXCE continues due to the necessity
> for building self-hosting OpenSolaris kernel).

That makes sense.  OKay.

>>  So think of it as a future looking Solaris OS type product.
>>
>>> Also, why you name packages with prefix SUNW? Most peoples look for gcc,
>>> for example, but can't find it. May be more user-frendly name packages
>>> as most of us expect?
>>
>>  Because SUNW was the old Sun Microsystems Stock symbol I guess. Also
>> because every package in the Sun Solaris product inventory that goes into
>> Solaris has a name of SUNWfoo for some foo. This means that the dependency
>> tree for SUNWfoo may include SUNWbar which may also have a dependency on
>> SUNWwoo. Therefore no one wanted to reinvent the where and thus all the
>> packages in a Project Indiana or OpenSolaris Binary product release will
>> have packages named SUNWfoo and SUNWbar and SUNWwoo.  That is my guess.
>
> Package refactoring and renaming will happen at some stage in the future - I
> don't know the exact plans for that, but you're right, it doesn't make too
> much
> sense to have the SUNW prefix anymore. That information will be maintained
> within the package metadata.

cool.  I hope that someone books a room at a mental hospital for whomever
gets stuck with that nasty job.

>> Over the last few days I worked around the clock with Angelo Rajadurai to
>> get as much software into an IPS style repo for people to use. The process
>> is flawed and it tends to break easily. We don't know why. We can install
>> packages from the repo to an Indiana user.  Sometimes. There is no
>> facility
>> for post install or pre-install scripts and we may have to just create our
>> own solution to address that.
>
> Looking forward to this :)

Sometimes one just needs to hack forwards. At the moment I need to stop
everything and rethink. I also need to get samba released or people will
find me and kill me :-O  I promised that over a month ago. whoops

Dennis