[indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

[Giacomo Tufano]

Il giorno 04/lug/08, alle ore 20:22, Moinak Ghosh ha scritto:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Is the target market the developer?  The programer in a university
>> somewhere? That can NOT be the case because OpenSolaris ships with no
>> compiler and no system headers even if the compiler was included. If
>> the target market is supposed to be the programmer then someone  
>> forget
>> to give them GCC 4.x at the very *minimum*.
>>
>   The repository contains GCC, headers and other sundry development  
> related
>   packages. So I do not quite get what is the problem with pulling
> down all those
>   other than bandwidth of course in certain regions.
>   In addition the bandwidth issue is diminishing day by day.

True. But just today, when looking for KDE for solaris I found on http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDE_on_Solaris 
  this text about the prerequisites for compiling KDE 4.x on Solaris.

"You can use either Solaris 10 update 5 (S10U5) or Solaris Express  
(Nevada build 70b or 83 -- these two versions run on our build machine  
and on at least one developer's desktop). Other versions of the  
operating system might work, but there are no guarantees and probably  
not much sympathy either; OpenSolaris 2008.5 is downright broken as a  
development platform".

I found some other (similar, while not so "hard") comments somewhere  
else on the Internet (too lazy to find them)... It seems that  
developers don't think that OpenSolaris is a suitable developer  
platform... some countermeasure should be adopted. If the target  
market are developers, it is probably better not include openoffice in  
the CD and include compilers, headers and some dev tool...

My 2 cents,
gt