[5876] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena 10 and 3partysw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Nov 8 00:29:45 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:54 -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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?
OpenOffice in particular, I'd like to install in the release, since
we'll likely be getting rid of the local-lockers framework. (The other
locker we bring local is acro; I think the native PDF tools in Ubuntu
will suffice to remove the need for rapid access to Acrobat Reader.)
Probably anything else we see commonly used as well.
> Some other 3partysw-related questions also came up, including: Is
> the slw wrapper expected to continue to work? What will the AFS
> sysname be?
I don't know any reason why slw would break. I haven't picked an AFS
sysname but i386_ubuntu804 would make sense.
