[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".

   BTW it is unfortunate that  the developers feel this. OpenSolaris
by default has
   most of the KDE4 dependencies satisfied. It is a lot less effort
and less software
   duplication to provide a KDE4 build on OpenSolaris IMHO. It will be nice to
   have KDE4 packages on pkg.opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris is getting an
   audience that makes it useful to have KDE4 on top of it. How many users will
   use Solaris10 on their desktops ?
   <plug>In any case if you are a KDE fan there is always BeleniX.</plug>

Regards,
Moinak.