On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:50:45PM +0200, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > I think I can say that I speak for the whole BSD community, GNOME users > and non-GNOME users, when I say that such steps as enforcing Linux-only > dependencies even more is a clear sign GNOME does not care about portability > to any OS other than Linux...and that this is very sad sign to everyone else.
Portability is nice, but how many OpenBSD developers are there working on GNOME for a significant amount of time? How many OpenBSD developers work upstream (so not just porting after the fact)? How many maintain a GNOME module? This as I don't notice anyone non-Linux developers usually on desktop-devel-list. Only some complaints after a new GNOME is released and it doesn't work right away on e.g. FreeBSD. To me, it seems like we do not have any non-Linux developers at all. So as a result, non-Linux gets less effort. It seems a pretty logical result to me. Then obviously you'll get a thread asking to depend more on just Linux. It is still being *asked*; result is this discussion and eventually release-team will decide. I do wonder what portability gets us (benefits+drawbacks). I can think of extra users, and perhaps better abstractions, but what more? Above doesn't reflect any opinion on what I think GNOME should do btw. I have not made up my mind at all. I'm just wondering out loud and being critical. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
