On 02/07/07, Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > * Shawn Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 29/06/07, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Doug Scott wrote: > > >> Back to the Java front. I think that it would be a mistake not to > > >> include the jre in the base, though the jre size on Solaris does concern > > >> me. > > >> > > >> Doug > > >> > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> du -hs /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0/jre > > >> 124M /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0/jre > > > > > >That's certainly a large compromise if we did want to include it. > > > > A good compromise would be a way to make it so the browser could tie > > into the packaging system / repository to install missing plugins for > > java, flash, etc. on demand. > > > > If it's integrated, that will be far less painful. > > > > The user should not have to search in package manager ala synaptic, etc. > > Why not? They have to on any other opensource operating > system/distribution. Sun java is not installed by default on ubuntu, > debian, fedora, rhel, or suse (I think, novell might ship it by > default now). The only distribution I know that does include it by > default is slackware. Windows doesn't (naturally) though MacOS X does > include it (well at least some versions of Java). > > As long as we make it simple and intuitive to add via the network, I > don't consider this a pain point. > > If we can work out how to include it by default given size constraints, > then fine but I don't think we *have* to.
Unfortunately, I don't think that is a fair comparison. I believe Java has not been shipped by default in many distributions because of past distribution restrictions and Java's license. That has been what has been said by distributors anyway... I think many would agree that now Java is under a much friendlier-to-open-source license that will see many distributions start to include it in their base. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
