[indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

[Dennis Clarke]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/07/2008, at 11:53 AM, MC wrote:
>
>>> OpenSolaris 2008.5 is downright broken as a development platform
>>
>> If someone outside this list is saying that (they are) then people
>> here should be listening.
>>
>> I suggest a package that reconfigures the system as a development
>> platform, and an iso that comes as a development platform by
>> default.  Swap some of the office productivity apps for software
>> development apps.  This is the CD I would give university students...
>
> So I'd appreciate any thoughts you have in terms of 'development
> platform' - do you mean C, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, C++? Or web
> developer - Rails, Django, PHP, Javascript, ...? What about compilers
> and IDEs? Which ones? Would you include system headers, or application/
> web servers?

whoa .. whoa .. slow down.  I can't read that much in a single breath :-)

> I'm not disagreeing with you in any way, just curious as to what you
> take on it is. What I'd rather see is us do a really good job as you
> say about packaging up specific sets of developer platforms, and make
> it really easy *initially* to download those from the repositories.

How about a second CD image for all that goodness and then *also* keep
it all in the repo too.

> Then, and only then, do I think we should be putting together
> additional media focusing on specific areas.

bingo .. good idea .. do that

Dennis