Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-06 Thread James Carlson
Brian Cameron writes: Perhaps you misunderstand how codeina works, or I misunderstand something. The codeina application autodetects when a user tries to play a file that can't be played due to a lack of a codec. If Fluendo offers a codec for sale that enables playing that format, it pops up

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Follow the GNU autoconf philosophy - don't test for OS names and assume you know the feature set of all versions, past, present and future, of that OS -- test for the features you care about. You are not talking about the GNU autoconf philosophy but

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Ignacio Marambio Catán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh? i dont see how java using IPS to distribute it's software makes checking whether pkg(5) is available or not less reliable. for the intended purpose, if pkg(5) is available, then codenia should try and install

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Ignacio Marambio Cat?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: huh? i dont see how java using IPS to distribute it's software makes checking whether pkg(5) is available or not less reliable. for the intended purpose, if pkg(5) is available, then codenia should try and install an IPS package, otherwise a

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brian Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Glenn: I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on the system). In theory, if a user

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Glenn: I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on the system). In theory, if a user wants to use IPS to manager their system

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brian Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Glenn: I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on the system). In theory, if a user

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Cameron
Edward: note that i'm not a member of the IPS team, a packaging expert, etc. but i did buy the currently available fluendo codecs so i'm replying because i'm an interested customer. ;) Thanks for your comments. Some questions below... well, when distinguishing between sparc and x86, it

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:08:06PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Assuming that isn't possible, and they need to provide different styles of packages for Solaris versus OpenSolaris, then what is the recommended interface to use to identify whether the codeina client is running on Solaris versus

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
good question. i don't know if there is an official interface for doing this. opensolaris hasn't been arc'd yet and i'm sure that arc would love to spend a long time debating this issue. :) that said, i think your best bet would be to look at /etc/release. ed I dont think the contents of

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Cameron wrote: Assuming that isn't possible, and they need to provide different styles of packages for Solaris versus OpenSolaris, then what is the recommended interface to use to identify whether the codeina client is running on Solaris versus OpenSolaris? i'm not sure this distinction

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Ignacio Marambio Cat?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: good question. i don't know if there is an official interface for doing this. opensolaris hasn't been arc'd yet and i'm sure that arc would love to spend a long time debating this issue. :) that said, i think your best bet would be to

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-04 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
huh? i dont see how java using IPS to distribute it's software makes checking whether pkg(5) is available or not less reliable. for the intended purpose, if pkg(5) is available, then codenia should try and install an IPS package, otherwise a sysv package On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Glenn

[osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-10-31 Thread Brian Cameron
I am currently working with some engineers at Fluendo to help them provide their media plugins for OpenSolaris and also to help make the codeina program work on both Solaris and OpenSolaris. I have a few questions I am hoping you can help with. The codeina client program sets 4 variables to

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-10-31 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
some comments below. note that i'm not a member of the IPS team, a packaging expert, etc. but i did buy the currently available fluendo codecs so i'm replying because i'm an interested customer. ;) ed On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:16:04AM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: I am currently working with

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-10-31 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
hm. i missed the codeina part, which after some web searching, i guess it handles the finding, purchasing, downloading, installing, and updating of fluendo codecs? if so then cool. ed On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:12:24AM -0700, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: some comments below. note that i'm not a