Hi,
Urias McCullough wrote:
>> Yes, there are some people
>> out there giving Haiku seminars at universities and even at work, and
>> for them it would be great if they could easily churn out a few CDs with
>> some additional stuff such as the development tools, and maybe even some
>> additional documentation.
>
> This, unfortunately, is not must of a reality yet :( GCC does run
> under Haiku, but when trying to build anything bigger than a couple of
> small source files, it tends to go south I think.
A CD could include a Haiku demo VM image, and separately (not in the VM)
the development tools and even some documentation, such as a copy of the
getting started pages, for example.
>> Haiku already has test images available (both HDD and VMWare); a demo
>> CD/image for a conference/seminar/etc. would only be an extension of
>> that, with the same intended audience but a bit more demonstrative of
>> what it can do, and better suited for the event or a non-English
>> audience where appropriate. Even if Haiku had an official base distro
>> today, that will not change the fact that it can be enhanced as a
>> demo/promo tool by a few harmless additions.
>
> I think the problem is that "few harmless additions" is subjective.
> Some may consider an addition harmless, while others may feel it is
> distasteful or inappropriate for the Haiku image.
How about "apps that have been tested and are known to be functional"
then? :)
I am really not talking about taste, but rather functionality. There is
community knowledge of certain apps being quite functional in Haiku,
such as Vision, BeShare, FTP+, WonderBrush, Transmission, CL-AMP, etc..
The inclusion of (some of) these apps would not be harmful but rather
enhance the effect of the demo, by showing the capabilities of the OS
beyond the bundled apps.
> At this point, I have to assume that the only thing that can be
> distributed with the Haiku name and logo intact are the images created
> from a virgin build of Haiku. Given the guidelines, possibly this
> means supporters will be forced to release this side-by-side with
> their "customized" version (where the logo and name have been
> removed)? That almost correlates with some recent mentions of a
> "second CD" containing apps, etc. that separate distributions can use
> to separate their customizations from the base distro.
This seems to me like too much bureaucratic burden being imposed on
efforts whose only goal is to help promote Haiku for no tangible benefit.
> Localized distributions are even trickier. In these cases, it would
> probably be mostly a localized font and input methods (Japanese) and
> localized strings. Since Haiku doesn't currently have any built-in
> localization support, community members who wish to maintain separate
> localized versions are subjected to the same guidelines as other
> distros - even if they change nothing else in the system.
>
> It would be nice if there was a program where distribution authors
> could seek some type of "authorization" to use the Haiku name/logo for
> non-nefarious purposes :)
You keep equating a demo to a distro, which is not necessarily the case.
Cheers,
Koki
