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? 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. Then, and only then, do I think we should be putting together additional media focusing on specific areas. Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
