Thanks glen, i will be starting my work on the caiman-constructor's GUI today, i was wondering how would i go about accessing the package-repositories just to get the name of the package and some package information and possible get the "package information only" from other sources like ubuntu's repositories the way aptitude package manager does it , because i guess the Ubuntu community is the largest right now and has most number of indexed packages.
regards, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Glenn Lagasse <Glenn.Lagasse at sun.com>wrote: > 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 > -- Kunal Ghosh BE 3rd semester Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering. Sir MVIT Bangalore,India Quote: The best way out is always through.--Robert Frost Blog:kunalghosh.wordpress.com V-card:http://campus.acm.org/public/vcard/vcard.cfm?handle=scarletpanther -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20081123/a380f2f9/attachment.html>
