>Glenn Lagasse wrote:
>> AI is different, intentionally so. Among other things, we're actually
>> trying to improve automated installation of OpenSolaris.
>
>Agree that AI, IPS, and lots of things going forward are much better.
I have no proof that AI will be better than jumpstart; the people
designing don't even know how people use jumpstart. The AI documents
alone are a proof of that. This is all sounds like designing from an
ivory tower. if you have not installed 100s of systems with jumpstart,
and run those systems in production (i.e., it wasn't some lab exercise at
Sun), then you're probably not the right person to redesign jumpstart.
To take existing software is sometime hard to develop it further.
However, continue to use existing software and developing has two huge
benefits:
- it helps the current customers to take our new release
- it helps us fixing bugs in the current release
When you develop from tabula rasa you lose that; your end result must make
up for that. I'm not seeing that.
Here's what I predict: someone will install OpenSolaris using the start
and finish scripts from Solaris 10 because "AI doesn't do what I want".
Because it can.
Casper
