S h i v wrote: > Going by the dates dropped in a couple of lists about the first > release (october) I presume there is already a team working on > Indiana. >
There are teams working on projects that will make Indiana what it is intended to be. For the most part, they were working on those things well before Ian came along and created this particular project. The Installation and Packaging community projects are where you'd track the actual deliverables you seem interested in more directly. > Is better package management system one of the features that will get > delivered as part of the october release? > Yes, that's the intention. > If so, will it be using the spec file based approach that is currently > being used by the desktop(JDS) group? > > When will the development activity be in the open? > I'll defer to Stephen and Danek and Bart to discuss details, but it is being opened up as rapidly as possible; a couple of the recent blog posts I reference below are the start at doing so. Expect to see a project for the packaging specifically to be proposed in the Install community soon. Dave http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/observations_on_packaging http://blogs.sun.com/barts/entry/rethinking_patching _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
