Hello CSW users, This is a very important poll, for the future of X11 support in CSW packages going forward.
We are faced with a tough technical decision to make. While the implementation details are technical, the major impact is more user based. So, we are asking you, the users, to tell us what you would prefer! For 6 years now, we have based virtually all our X11 dependant programs, on the X11 libraries supplied by Solaris itself. Unfortunately, the latest versions of gtk, which are required by the latest versions of things like firefox, etc. require newer versions of basic things like libX11 and so on, than older versions of Solaris provide. We are obviously going to provide firefox. So we are also going to provide the required libraries in one way or another. The question then becomes; from this point on, do we have ALL X11 programs use the CSW X11 libraries? Or do we have only the programs that "need" the new stuff, use the new stuff in /opt/csw/X11, whereas others that are less fancy (ie: not gtk based) use the sun libs in /usr/openwin/lib So far, there is some inclination to no longer use the Sun libs. This would mean that, if you still use some sun graphical programs, you would potentially have a bit more redundancy in the shared library department. The "good news", is that it should only amount to around 4 megabytes of extra ram used up this way, vs using sun X11 libraries. That's total extra; it's a one-time hit, not a per-process cost. Please let us know what you, our users, would prefer. We've set up a poll for this issue, at http://doodle.com/73mdviypknk63y7e _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
