Glynn Foster wrote:
> On 8/07/2008, at 11:53 AM, MC wrote:
>
>   
>>> OpenSolaris 2008.5 is downright broken as a development platform
>>>       
>> If someone outside this list is saying that (they are) then people  
>> here should be listening.
>>
>> I suggest a package that reconfigures the system as a development  
>> platform, and an iso that comes as a development platform by  
>> default.  Swap some of the office productivity apps for software  
>> development apps.  This is the CD I would give university students...
>>     
>
> So I'd appreciate any thoughts you have in terms of 'development  
> platform' - do you mean C, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, C++? Or web  
> developer - Rails, Django, PHP, Javascript, ...? What about compilers  
> and IDEs? Which ones? Would you include system headers, or application/ 
> web servers?
>   

SXCE has most of that already.  I'll have to google Django to figure out
what it is, but the rest is already there (ok, maybe not C#...)  ~2.7 GBytes
for b93.  I don't think we are far off... at least in the technical aspects.
 -- richard

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