On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:48 pm, Dave Miner wrote: >> You need a toolkit with which to implement a GUI. For better or worse, >> Java represents the richest environment for doing so on Solaris, in my >> opinion. It isn't a significant factor in the performance of the >> install, though, beyond the overhead that we have in setting it up to >> run on the current miniroot, which is completely a result of space >> limitations on the first CD combined with the architecture of the >> current install. > > Dave, > > I'd just like to comment that I agree for the most part. I find that a lot of > folks tend to bash Java for performance, but it's gotten much better over the > past few years. > > I don't know if it makes more sense over other similar technologies, python > for instance (I look at python as being a similar technology;-), but it works > and does a good job, IMO. It seems easier for us to extend what we have, > since much of it does use Java today. > > I think Java is one of the richest programming environments available today, > there doesn't seem a good reason that it shouldn't be used.
400MB for the installer must be one of the tradeoffs?
