2007/7/3, Darren Kenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Alberto, While it may not be there for CORE OS functions, it may be there for UI's related to them, for example, for the Visual Panels project, which is a Java based system configuration utility, this is to be the core configuration direction, via a GUI, in OpenSolaris. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, the main UI development language for admin tools has been Java, so if you omit Java you are likely to omit any of these. The main reason for this was to avoid direct dependencies on relatively unstable APIs in the Desktop arena (relative to the CORE OS APIs that is).
That's exactly the kind of answer that I was looking for, thanks Dar. Personally, I can understand if people don't want to include it, given the
size, but it's a way more stable platform than Python to develop with, and the developer tools are miles ahead of Python's...
I never suggested that one was better than another. It's only that Java in the core of an OS sounded strange to me, and I wanted proper reasons, now I have them ;-) Thanks,
Darren.
-- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz
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