[indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Giacomo Tufano <gt at iltofa.it> wrote:
> 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...

   Maybe a web poll on this can help. I do not think OpenOffice is
included in the
   ISO image. It is one big monolithic package hundreds of MB in size.
A lot of the
   space is taken up by all the localization packages and obviously
the 32/64 bit
   multi-architecture support in the base system, X11 and Gnome.
   A CD ISO can only hold so much. It cannot satisfy everyone's requirements.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> My 2 cents,
> gt
>
>