Re: [Opencd-devel] More on K-Meleon and Installer Options...

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 21:48, J Aaron Farr wrote: 
> 
> However, I do have some issues to raise:
> 
> Are we targetting only the Win32 platform?  If so, K-Meleon as our installer
> engine might really be the way to go.  If not, then we should probably look at
> some browser based on a cross-platform language like java, python, perl, etc. 
> This way we would be able to easily run our stripped down web broswer on
> multiple platforms.
> 
I suggest we go ahead with win32 for these reasons: 

1)  90% of desktops use Windows 
2)  Mac users are in less need of 'saving' because OS X is aleady a
decent system based on the open source UNIX-like Darwin (as far as I
understand).  So, Mac users already have some introduction to OSS, and I
would say they are less likely to switch to Linux. 
3)  If we make the installer HTML- based then it can for the time being
run in a standard MAC browser (although the user may need to click 'yes'
in a few places.  Later we can work on a custom Mac browser. 
4)  Although we have agreed (it seems) to refrain from MS-bashing in
this project, I think we'll all agree that it's the MS stranglehold we
want to reduce. 


But most importantly, I think it's important to get one CD under our
belt first, if so only on one platform, and then we can think about
diversifying for the next release.  So, my suggestion is: let's keep it
simple and get one platform done.  The choice of software will also be
different for other platforms, adding to the confusion. 

- Henrik 


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