On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 07:22 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > Can we remove the anti-gnu, anti-Linux rhetoric from > > this list, as it > > get us nowhere. > > Can we? Probably. Will we? I most certainly *won't*. People need to be > made sensitive to these issues! There's tons of GCC-only garbage out > there precisely because the majority doesn't have a clue that there > are better, professional compilers available gratis. > > Had this code been written to compile with a professional compiler, > 90% of all the porting issues would go away. > > It's an issue. And a big one at that. It needs to be openly discussed > until it gets enough exposure. And whoever is writing crappy code can > feel pointed out. Call it anti-gnu anti-Linux. So what if it is, the > issue still stands.
One could argue that since the code is written by volunteers it would be highly hypocritical to pass judgement and yet the individual making the statements doing very little in contribution to improving the 'code quality'. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
