Richard Elling wrote: > Glynn Foster 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? >> >> > > 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. > -- richard > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > SXCE has all of that actually (Except rails, which is pretty easy to get running) as for C# just fetch mono from blastwave (I'm sure there's unbundled versions out there somewhere as well for x86, mono-project.com has SPARC) Rest can mostly be done from Netbeans, it supports PHP through module manager and ruby out of the box. Indiana's main problem is labeling really, it's mostly all there just at times doesn't draw in all the necessary dependencies or sometimes omits headers for C/C++ stuff.
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