Glynn - It may be a little early to create a community, but not too early to start defining the problems we need to solve and what a community might do. What I would like to see immediately here is a good summary of
1. What are our packaging goals? 2. What systems are available and what are the pros and cons of each? Some of my concerns are 1. having a system that is relatively easy to learn so that developers will not be put off by it. Some systems may be very powerful, but hard to learn. I favor simplicity whenever possible so that new users will not be too confused. 2. for creation of a package, having a system that handles dependencies, pre and post install issues, etc. in a logical way - if logic can even be applied! 3. having a system that provides flexible installation. For example, some users will want to run a command that will install the package and every dependency automatically. Others will want a command that just installs just one or a few packages, but not others perhaps. Finally, many users want to just download individual packages and install them after they can understand what each is going to do to their systems. There are probably hundreds of other things to worry about. I would love to have a fairly detailed summary of your methods for your current software in GNOME/JDS and maybe an example or two of how you might add a new software package. For instance, there are programs like say nessus or nedit (that I don't think are packaged at Sun) that use GTK+ 2. How might such a progam be built and packaged using what you do now? People who use other methods can provide similar examples. I think the more examples we have, the easier it will be for us to at least experiment, if not select one to use at this point. Just an idea. Steve C. On 8/17/05, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > > First, my thanks to Dennis for his very kind and supportive comments. > > I have always enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, working with him > > and the members of Blastwave. I fully expect to have our individual > > communites join together with the OpenSolaris world of develpers to > > define and deploy the large "external tools/applications" software > > part of this effort. There are many things to plan and create and we > > all hope this can be done quickly and cleverly by the community. > > This is totally cool. I just want to add my support to you guys - let me > know if there's anything the GNOME/JDS team can do to help out. We're > very keen on being able to share a lot of the software stack that GNOME > depends on - it'll definitely make our lives easier if there are already > some packages available, and a unified solution just gives me a warm > fuzzy. > > Any thoughts for creating a packaging community, or is it too early to > go that direction just yet? > > > Glynn > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
