Hey, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Hi guys, in some thread I read that Indiana is experiment, so, as I >> understand, even when you release stable version, it will not stable. For my >> opinion it's not true way. > > I think that Ian Murdock has already said that it is not an experiment and > that it will be used as the next rendidtion of the SXDE. It is a Sun > product and it has the OpenSolaris TradeMark on it which Sun Microsystems > Inc owns and controls.
That's not quite correct. SXDE went away because we wanted to focus on a single binary distribution (though SXCE continues due to the necessity for building self-hosting OpenSolaris kernel). > So think of it as a future looking Solaris OS type product. > >> Also, why you name packages with prefix SUNW? Most peoples look for gcc, for >> example, but can't find it. May be more user-frendly name packages as most >> of us expect? > > Because SUNW was the old Sun Microsystems Stock symbol I guess. Also > because every package in the Sun Solaris product inventory that goes into > Solaris has a name of SUNWfoo for some foo. This means that the dependency > tree for SUNWfoo may include SUNWbar which may also have a dependency on > SUNWwoo. Therefore no one wanted to reinvent the where and thus all the > packages in a Project Indiana or OpenSolaris Binary product release will > have packages named SUNWfoo and SUNWbar and SUNWwoo. That is my guess. Package refactoring and renaming will happen at some stage in the future - I don't know the exact plans for that, but you're right, it doesn't make too much sense to have the SUNW prefix anymore. That information will be maintained within the package metadata. > Over the last few days I worked around the clock with Angelo Rajadurai to > get as much software into an IPS style repo for people to use. The process > is flawed and it tends to break easily. We don't know why. We can install > packages from the repo to an Indiana user. Sometimes. There is no facility > for post install or pre-install scripts and we may have to just create our > own solution to address that. Looking forward to this :) Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
