[haiku-development] Re: Haiku Alpha Proposals & Decisions
- From: "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:01:31 +0200
Hi Nick,
> I wanted to jump in here and give my input.
>
> Nothing extra should be included in Haiku image. I will explain. If you
> start adding Firefox, GCC, Perl, box, etc., then the image size will grow (
> maybe another 23+ MB ) and not everyone wants to use the same set of
> software. Wastes bandwidth if done this way.
I disagree. Applications like a web browser are really basic and no one will
want to live without it. So I would try to determine the application categories
we assume are needed by most testers, and where there is really only one good
choice, we should include it. For example, Haiku comes with it's own solution
for e-mail. Personally, I believe Beam is a much more powerful application, but
I would agree that Mail is still a good choice. Therefore I could live with
Beam not being put on the image. But to give another example, there are a few
applications for IRC. But Vision is simply the best one and therefore I would
put it on the image.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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