On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 10:04 -0800, Rich Teer wrote: > In fact, one might argue that had the GNOME project adopted some > of Sun's "mindless rules" (aka, sound engineering practices), > issues like this probably wouldn't have arisen in the first place. > > Broad-ranging breakages and everything needing to be rebuilt > because libc was updated, anyone?
This is quite a bit unfair... The libraries at the bottom of the GNOME stack (glib, gtk+) remained ABI stable for years, even though they evolve rapidly, unlike libc. Another library from the GNOME community is libxml2, which is now used all over Solaris. I'm currently working on updating it in Solaris 10 to a version that is 2 years newer. The diff is 100000+ lines (not counting the Makefile changes) and yet, no ABI breakage was encountered. Of course the higher up you go in the stack, the less stable things are, and I think that's perfectly normal. Laca _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
