On 8/07/2008, at 5:56 PM, Richard Elling wrote: >> 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? >> > > SXCE has most of that already. I'll have to google Django to figure > out > what it is, but the rest is already there (ok, maybe not C#...) > ~2.7 GBytes > for b93. I don't think we are far off... at least in the technical > aspects.
I'll almost certain that we're not far off too - we just need to walk the last mile, to make installation, and configuration a breeze. For example, I want to be able to install rails. It shouldn't be any more simpler than - pfexec pkg install ruby-rails This grabs ruby, rails, associate dependencies and chooses, say, mysql A simple rails /path/to/project and /path/to/project/scripts/server should result in a nice rails page on http://localhost:3000. Anything more complicated that goes out of bounds from the current set of tutorials for rails is insufficient. I have no doubt there are some fine points to be determined about the interaction of gem here. But it's got to be simple, and it's *got* to be the first result from a quick Google search. Same for Django, Drupal, etc.. Let the users get on and do what they want to do - let's not get in the way. But at this point, I bet I'm preaching to the crowd. Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
