On May 20, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Doug Way wrote:
I agree. I think it's probably simpler to have just have one Full image which has lots of developer goodies as well as media content. It's not worth the extra maintenance effort to have a special Media-Full image, and then a Developer-Full image.
However, I understand that getting this Full Assembler package together is a lot of work for Diego. So if he wants to limit the amount of developer goodies to a modest number of things for now, that makes sense.
This seems somewhat contradictory. Either we have a Full image which does have developer goodies, or Diego doesn't have time to include them and so we need a separate Developer-Full image. To say "we don't need a developer image because the media image will have developer stuff, but we don't have time to actually put the developer stuff in because media is a higher priority" doesn't make sense: you end up just not meeting the needs of the developers.
I don't mind which we go with, as I can see good arguments either way, but if the Full image is not in practice going to include adequate developer support, then let's be explicit about that and open the way for someone to put together a proper developer-oriented distribution.