Re: ANN: One Step to GNUstep - pre-release version 0.9

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> No. All the system stuff is standard openSUSE 11.4. The compiler is:
> gcc version 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585] (SUSE
> Linux).
But you track SuSE for further updates, so in the future it will contain 
possibly 4.6 or clang too.

> It could indeed be built as an installable distribution but would
> probably need more packages added to make it usable for that purpose.
> For example, it doesn't include a web browser - I've just said, "use
> your host system's web browser". It doesn't include multimedia - you
> will likely get better sound reproduction, for example, by playing it
> in your host machine than in a guest Virtual Machine.
>
> My aim for the VM has been to keep the package set as lean as
> possible, so as to make it easy and quick to download.
Yes, that was exactly the original reasoning we had together: lean, 
quick. An additional environment to test and use along your host system.

This has the advantage of a quick and lean VM and also a small seto of 
packages that can be easily upgraded. Technically the packages could be 
used for an installable LiveCD too, but we thought a VM to be more useful.

In any case it is an early release.

Riccardo