On 7/28/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
One point I would like to bring to notice. When talking about "opensolaris", "free/open source software" and the community, *gratis* doesn't mean anything at all. Going by that gcc is the most compelling choice the community has had till now. Sun studio is also a choice only because it will hopefully be open sourced in the coming days. The huge foss code base wouldn't even exist but for gcc which made it possible. Why complain about porting thank the guys who wrote the software and the tool chain that it is there at all in the first place. > Had this code been written to compile with a professional compiler, 90% of > all the porting issues would go away. Please visit http://bugs.sun.com -> category Sun Studio C++ and check the kind of bugs especially those related to STL implementation in Sun Studio as against that in gcc (ofcourse gcc has its own set of things) These help in being more objective. Any complex product have their own reasons for the way they have evolved. Sun studio never existed for a person to test with it. Forte workshop (the earlier avatar of sun studio) was expensive, not available on Linux(the platform of choice for many FOSS developers), Solaris was proprietary and never worked on whole bunch of x86 platforms, on and on....... With *opensolaris* things are changing for the better. Provide people with compelling alternatives. People are capable of making their own choices. regards Shiv _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
