Martin Man wrote: > Great document Dave, > Thank you.
> I'm fairly new to the solaris world (but with a lot of experience from > linux/windows/bsd world) and this document summarizes all the things > that I was just "feeling" for me. > > My question is, are there any concrete plans for packaging format? You > seem to have agreed upon going the anaconda way for the installer (by > building caiman), but I have not found any proposal regarding the > underlying package format. Are there any evaluation studies, or are you > planning to do them, or are you planning to invent yet another packaging > format for Solaris world (IMHO a very bad idea). > There aren't any firm plans yet. Not even soft ones. The evaluation process is more complex, in that it really gets into many aspects of Sun's (and our customers') businesses, so you can be sure that there will be a great deal of planning and evaluation. I hope we'll be able to say more about it here soon, but since it's someone else leading the work, I'm not going to pre-empt him with my own opinions or speculation. Dave
