Ian Murdock wrote: > Anil Gulecha wrote: > >> On 10/22/07, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote: >> >>>> We discussed this at the summit, and everyone was orally for including >>>> compiz on the Indiana release (but having it turned off by default). >>>> Is this still the plan? >>>> >>> It sounded like Compiz isn't quite ready (particularly given the >>> limited device support) for integration into the Live CD at the >>> moment. However, I would expect it to be made available through a >>> network repository in the near term. >>> >>> >> Stability wise, it's stable enough for the Ubuntu guys to leave it on >> by default in Gutsy. And device wise, both INtel and Nvidia are >> covered (with ATI coming in soon). That leaves a large part of the >> audience covered. It makes sense to include it in the first release as >> it's not more than 5 mb big (from erwann's packages) and adds a lot of >> eye candy that users love to see. >> > > I would tend to agree.. As long as it's not enabled by default and fails > gracefully if the required hardware support isn't there, what's the harm > in including it? > Before we decide to include any item we need to make sure we have space. I am assuming that we are talking here about March time frame. Some of the things that need to be on the CD and are not currently there for the October release are JRE and language support. Once these are in, we can determine the space and priority requirements.
-Sanjay > -ian >
