Well, what's your opinion about "community packages" would be awesome to put there pkgs which not fit in JDS or in Nevada, like inkscape, mplayer, xchat, etc. Yes i know that are on blastwave, but they are really outdated. Opinions ?
bandy On 3/15/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote: > > Hey, > > A couple of opensolaris people have asked when Inkscape is going to hit > JDS. For > those who don't know, Inkscape is a vector graphics illustrator, and a > regular > tool for most artists in the open source world these days. > > However, with it comes some potential issues. > > o It depends on C++ bindings to GTK+. > > The bindings are in pretty good shape. The maintainer > is pretty keen to maintain them, and responsible enough > to try and maintain ABI. > > o It doesn't build with Sun Studio > > This is likely to be the blocker. According to comments, > there are some gcc specific bits that we'd have to try > and move over. I *think* Brian has done some work getting > the compiler folks tuned into this. Any update? > > The other dependencies are less of a problem AFAICS. I personally think it > would > be pretty awesome to have an SVG editor in the desktop (especially > compared to > some of the other things we've been putting into the desktop > consolidation). Any > thoughts on this? > > > Glynn > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20070316/2c40f5f6/attachment.html>
