Ignacio Marambio Catán writes: > I think you're confusing things being under the opensolaris umbrella > does not necesary mean inclusion in the next solaris release. Sun is > the main sponsor of opensolaris, just that.And i think it is a sun > representative you have to talk to to push for kde's inclusion but > with C++ unstable abi....
As ugly as that is (and C++ and its ABI problems are fairly ugly) it's not really the worst problem that I see. (We can work around that by simply _mandating_ a single compiler in the walled-off areas afflicted by that code.) The worst problem is the forked effort that such a thing causes. It's hard enough getting projects to deliver plug-in GUI bits for a single GUI; doing it for multiple ones is just impossible. Thus, the result will be haphazard integration. Some things will work better in GNOME. Others will work better in KDE. Still others will fail abjectly in one or the other. Neither environment will work entirely right, nor is there any obvious direction that would cause us to work towards that. Having two GUI interfaces makes some sense if you're in the midst of providing some sort of transition. If you're not, and you're just reflecting underlying confusion, then I don't think you're really doing anyone any favor. I suspect that supplying the illusion of "choice" is one that has costs that aren't well accounted for. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
