Re: slink is gone, goals for potato?
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Edward Betts wrote:
> General project goals:
> potato estimated release - between June and August 1999
Which means we'll release by April 2000th given our current schedule
slidings... ;)
> Package management goals:
> Apt, the new front end to the package management system as standard
> Versions for:
> * Console - telnet access, console lovers and vgaless wonders
> * Frame buffer - for graphical install before X is configured
> * X, own toolkit - for people who do not like gtk or kde (?)
> * X, gnome/gtk - apt in gtk fully intergrated with gnome
> * X, kde/qt - someone will do a port
Are the kde/X, own toolkit/frame-buffer ports _really_ needed? A GNOME
version and a non-X version are enough IMHO (not that it would hurt to
have other versions, but I'm not sure we really need to have _5_
front-ends required in our project goals)
> A method for supporting package splits and package renames
The necessary support is already in dpkg. dselect & apt just need to use
it...
> Boot disk:
> Install from serial line
I think this already works for sparc at least.
> CD-ROMs with 2.88Mb boot disk, fit more stuff in.
Or directly a CD-ROM with a 20 MB live filesystem... Why limit ourselves
to just 2.88 MB?
> Desktop enviroments
> GNUstep - Will it be stable?
Probably not.
> UDE - Is it free?
UDE is still feature-free. (besides the icky-looking WM)
Maybe in a couple of years it'll be worth packaging, but so far it's
pretty much inexistant.
> Graphical Users Interfaces
> xfree86 3.3.3.x - some more drivers, with redhat xconfigurator?
With a bit of luck 4.0 should be out by then.
> perl 5.005 - lots of recompiles
Definatly!
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