James Tremblay wrote:
On Sunday 31 December 2006 15:19, garry saddington wrote:
Why not make an easy to install Windows version just for testing by 'normal' teachers. Then for production recommend SuSE - not difficult to justify (security, stability etc.). I can't think of a good reason to waste time with a windows anything. except maybe shades ;) and You and I seem to be on a different thought process about these programs.
As I read what you say, James, 'Doze is a trivial issue, not worth getting steamed up about: all the basic tools can be OSS and available across platforms. That seems to me to be the fundamental benefit of an exercise like this: to escape from proprietary limitations. The only Windows-specific; Linux-specific; or, I believe, Novell-specific, elements should be the executables for the tools, plus the packaging - relatively trivial issues in themselves. Which brings me back to the original question about what languages and tools to use... I was once almost commissioned to write a system for a local public school, to provide a system for room bookings, both for classes and external letting. My criteria for which tools to choose were: a) that I was already at least somewhat familiar with them; and b) that I could develop the system on my Linux kit, run the trial version on the 'Doze workstation in the office, then migrate it to the school's Novell servers. From those two criteria, I came up with Apache, MySQL and PHP. Aren't those criteria good ones here (there are probably other tools that fit)? Apart from anything else, if the system can run under 'Doze, then it becomes a step on the migration journey; if it won't, then it is not an option for anyone who hasn't, or isn't ready to, migrate: regrettably, quite a lot of potential users. (And server versus client doesn't distinguish anything: the system can, given the right OSS tools, run - either for demo/test purposes, or as the final tool - on whatever an establishment uses, both on the desk top and in the server room.) The main demand for input is into the active code, repackaging as both .zip and .tar.gz (or whatever) is trivial, so why not do it? Just my two-pennorth. Roger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org