[5875] in Release_7.7_team
Athena 10 and 3partysw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Nov 7 15:55:34 2007
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:54:51 -0500
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I was chatting with Alex today, and we were wondering if, with Athena
10, there will be a change in how we deal with some locker software.
Currently, there is a non-trivial amount of locker software that is
available as part of the OS, at least on Linux: OpenOffice, AbiWord,
gnumeric, etc. Right now, we install this in lockers, since there's
no OS-provided software on the Solaris side. When we move to a one-
platform system, is there an expectation that such software would
continue to exist in lockers, or would we want to embrace the "use
the OS-supplied version whenever possible" mindset, and have
OpenOffice simply installed in the release?
Some other 3partysw-related questions also came up, including: Is
the slw wrapper expected to continue to work? What will the AFS
sysname be?
-Jon
