On 22/11/2007, Christopher Kampmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A majority of packages in the milestone 1 release contain the "SUNW" > prefix and many of the packages include "0.5.11-0.75" as the version > number. In the Jan or Q4 releases of Indiana, will these packages be > modified to: > > 1) remove the superfluous (IMHO) "SUNW" prefix from the package name,
It is not superfluous. See current Sun software packaging guidelines. However, this is obviously a topic that needs discussion since I'm certain ARC will cover it. > 2) represent a bit more verbose and readily identifiable package names, and This is already provided for via the metadata that IPS allows you to have. > Our primary target of Linux developers won't miss the "SUNW" prefix, > they'll be glad to see more readable package names and they will demand > to have the proper versions of the components made explicit when listing > the installed and available packages. The "SUNW" prefix is a red herring; it in no way prevents us from having more descriptive names for packages thanks to IPS metadata. > Given the huge amount of investment and great strides being made by the > Indiana project, I'd hate to see these aspects adversely impact the > reception of the new distro. I sincerely doubt that the prefixing has any real impact whatsoever on usability. In reality, I suspect good tools for searching and installing are all that matter. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
