On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Giacomo Tufano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
