Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Jason D. Clinton, Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:06:36 -0500: Obviously the alleged pointlessness of something that we are arguing about is relevant. I think the pointlessness (isn't it a beautiful word? :)) of flaming Sun is that the argument was not just about Solaris. Platform independence is a good

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-23 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Hi, FWIW, I've been advocating for a while that, for example, GStreamer should aim to provide everything an application needs - ie. a complete framework. This came up when Cheese was being ported from HAL to use libgudev for device discovery. Now, the actual device interaction already

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Cameron
Jason: Obviously the alleged pointlessness of something that we are arguing about is relevant. Whether or not there are--you know--actual people using said OS is what this is really about. And apparently even Sun doesn't think so since they no longer invest the same level of resources in it

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-23 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Mittwoch, den 22.07.2009, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom: On the other hand, its possible we could do better tracking this stuff, is there a l.g.o. page that I can visit that shows me what are the blocker bugs in the platform for any given supported system ? bugzilla.gnome.org

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-23 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: I think the pointlessness (isn't it a beautiful word? :)) of flaming Sun is that the argument was not just about Solaris. Platform independence is a good thing for other platforms (*BSD/Mac?/Windows?) in itself. I agree with

Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

2009-07-23 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
Morning folks ;-) On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 22.07.2009, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Tristan Van Berkom: On the other hand, its possible we could do better tracking this stuff, is there a l.g.o. page that I can visit that shows me what are the