Re: [Opencd-devel] What about flavors?

[Bill R. <bil...@dn...>]

This flavor business is veering wildly off the original mark:  to provide
open source programs for the typical windows user.  This means one flavor
not several.  Once the one flavor is out and in distribution, then focusing
other flavors on smaller audiences makes sense but until the original
purpose for this whole project is served, multiple flavors just detracts.

bill r
----- Original Message -----
From: "Imran Ghory" <im...@bi...>
To: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <h....@bt...>
Cc: "Jeremy Hise" <jh...@li...>; "opencd-devel"
<ope...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Opencd-devel] What about flavors?


> On 4 May 2002, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
>
> >
> > Interesting idea. Once we have the installer stuff sorted out it's
> > really not much more work to make 3 versions.  Other plusses:
> >
> > 1)  Having the Corporate Backend version allows us to push some of the
> > really heavy hitters like Apache and mySQL, without worrying about
> > confusing the novice user.  It would also be good to associate the
> > OpenCD project with these apps because of their good reputation.
> >
> > 2)  Each category can have different criteria.  The Home verion must
> > stress simplicity while the Backend reliability, etc.  In total, this
> > would allow many more apps to qualify.
>
> I've been doing some number crunching and found that their exists about
> 240mb of programs that could go on the CD, excluding most programming type
> software, but including some server software (Apache, MySQL, PHP and
> Perl). So I don't think at this stage we need to break them off into
> seperate CDs just seperate sections.
>
> (I'll make a breakup of the figure available later today)
>
> On another note at 240mb range we could reasonably include source.
>
> Imran
>
>
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