Hi Kunal, [ in the future, please copy the caiman-discuss alias with your communications so as to widen your pool of available respondents ]
* kunal ghosh (kunal.t2 at gmail.com) wrote: > After going through the project a little more. (i haven't tried it out and > would be doing so in the near future) if i get it right the constructor > takes a config file and works upon it to create the ISO files for CD or for > USB. i wanted to write a program to take user's inputs and validate them and > create a config file with it , and also issue the command for starting the > construction( i.e. $ command config_file from inside my prgram ) so that the > user has to interact with the command line as less as possible ! > i guess this would help in increasing the user base of Open Solaris > to inexperienced newbies also ! Ok, so you want to focus on the Distro Constructor (which is merely one piece of the overall Caiman project). Great. And you want to make a GUI front-end to distro_const. Great idea imo. > if you all can suggest me something regarding the ideas mentioned above > (like the most suitable language to code in) or something seperate which > will help improve caiman constructor it would be great > NOTE: for code for freedom competetion i must use 2 sun technologies so > please suggest things keeping that in mind. As for choice of language, I think the best option is to use a language that you know well and that is available on OpenSolaris (no C# for instance). Python or C would be my first choices. I don't know how to answer your question about needing to use two Sun technologies. I suppose you could write the front end in Java but I don't have any experience writing Java and so I can't tell you if it would be suitable or not for what will be required. Personally, I wouldn't use Java. But that's just my personal opinion. Cheers, -- Glenn
