On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 17:09 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alfredo Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Erast, > > Thanks for your offer, but I'm trying to target Sun Solaris distro. > > Probably for most software developing in Nexenta is the same than > > developing in Solaris, but for something like xine that is very > > dependent on the specific versions of various libs (gnome, Xorg, > > libjpeg/tiff/etc...) that are not part of OpenSolaris yet, I assume that > > using Nexenta would be very different than using Solaris. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > There is a big difference between developing on Nexenta and doing the > same on Sun Solaris or SchilliX. > > On the latter, you get full compatibility even for the build system. > On Nexenta, it may be that you will get into trouble while compiling > because there are no UNIX tools in /usr/bin but GNU tools. > > So be careful with assumptions on compatibility. > > For a software dveloper, SchilliX is currently the best platform > because it gives better compatibility to Sun Solaris and because > the developer tools, libraries and include files are more complete.
Actually regarding xine and alike, Nexenta would be a better option for developers because of availability of libraries which does not exists on Solaris or blastwave.org. I'm talking about various plugins, language bindings and so on. All these extra libraries are part of Nexenta core. So, whether SchiliX or Nexenta better for developers is all pretty much depends on developers and their tasks. And just to notice, I think compilation of OpenSolaris on Nexenta is very possible, and will be available in Alpha 2 time frame. Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
