On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
