Sriram, You may not only ask, it was anticipated! Yes, this is somewhat new territory for OpenSolaris, but keep in mind what Indiana is intended to be, at least as it applies to Open Source Software (OSS). The Solaris Cabinet within Sun's Software organization decided that the inclusion of some *key* Web 2.0 OSS applications would have huge upside and minimal downside -- the Indiana repository will give another place for OpenSolaris users to get Drupal and other Web 2.0 apps (Fedora Commons repository software has been identified for Release 2, for example).
No commercial apps, to my knowledge, just F/OSS. Also, my understanding is that the size and nature of Indiana's repository is inclusive, and it's not as if we're trying to pack all this onto an OpenSolaris distro DVD. I can check to see if this is customer-driven, but I'd suspect that in the case of Drupal, it's more because it's a big RedShift/Web 2.0 offering that runs quite well on Solaris, with huge buzz and rocketing adoption in the industry. Happy to discuss/ERR Sriram Natarajan wrote: > If I may ask, why ? Is there a customer asking for this ? Where will > this end if we start carrying all user applications ? > > - sriram > > Eric Reid wrote: > >> Hello webstack-discuss, >> >> We are intending to include the Drupal 6 Content Management system by >> b86 of OpenSolaris, in time for the first 'Indiana' official release >> later this year. I will be spearheading this effort, including creation >> and pushing through of the ARC case (which will be posted here soon). >> >> This effort will concentrate on Drupal 6 Core only - no Drupal 4 or 5, >> no add-on modules. >> >> This note is to inform the Community of our intentions -- look for lots >> more in the days and weeks to come, and don't hesitate to contact me >> with questions, suggestions, observations or flames :) >> >> Eric Reid >> Sun ISV Engineering >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > > webstack-discuss mailing list > webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss > -- Eric Reid Staff Engineer, Software Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: +1 269.629.7238 Cell: +1 269.569.1042 Fax: +1 650.352.4428 Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/err AIM: ereidsan SL: EricReid SunMicrosystems
