Hi, I'd like to point out something here, I don't think we should state that we will not support other OSes, but certainly we should not hesitate to make some compromises if it allows for a better user experience.
Resources are scarce, and I'm afraid that Sun/Oracle (and I'm talking as an ex-Sun that worked closely with the Solaris Desktop guys here) or any other group that cares about GNOME in other platforms can't expect that the GNOME community should carry the burden of cross platform support itself. I learned this the hard way with my efforts to improve the Win32 story of the GNOME platform. Without enough upstream developers/co-maintainers taking care of those platforms actively we have no choice but to move on. My 2 cents. 2011/5/18 Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org>: > Hi, > > Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Wed, 18.05.11 15:49, Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) wrote: >>> I don’t have anything against requiring systemd, since it is definitely >>> the best init system out there currently, but the Linux dependency is an >>> absolute no-no for us. Having optional Linux-only functionalities is OK; >>> requiring Linux is not. >> >> Quite frankly, I'd like to question this. In the light of GNOME OS I >> think we need to ask ourselves the question if we do ourselves any good >> if we continue to support all kinds of kernels that simply cannot keep >> up with Linux anymore. > > This would be a major departure for the project, a big kick in the face > for long-term partners like Oracle/Sun, and also for other free > operating systems like BSD. > > Are you sure you're not taking the GNOME OS idea a bit far here? Are we > going to start depending on kernels carrying specific patch sets next? > Or specifying which package management system we expect GNOME > distributors to choose? > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > Dave Neary > GNOME Foundation member > dne...@gnome.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
